I believe too many lean back on feelings vs figuring a measure for fact's, and end up with who had best marketing and than blames the sub-par experience on the venture as a whole. 

People are too stupid to look beyond the sound bytes, which is fine because it makes it more lucrative for others--same as any venture--similar to real estate. 

You do not need a  mentor program, see if you can attend a  few meetups and then do a Joint Venture or equity deal with one of the investors there  and start from there.

Best of luck with your real estate ventures, and I’m here if you need assistance!

I din't have enough capital to start on my own, so I partnered up and did a few joint ventures, sprinkled in some seller financing, and then syndicated a couple of deals, only to return to joint ventures.Pick a strategy, then a market, then start to network with all the brokers in the market. $400k is plenty to get started.Gino

I did it by househacking 2 multifamily and joint venturing on about 20 units of commercial multifamily.

If everyone is truly active, it is now a joint venture and you can have a local real estate attorney form an LLC for you (which is much less expensive).

I would venture to guess many RE agents would disagree with you on that.

Let's connect too, I might be able to help you in your future real estate ventures.  

This was an opportune time to start our REI venture.