You will get plenty of that at your office sales meetings, office training, CE training, board and association training.   

Quote from @Jonathan Worrell: Nice to meet you.

I’m interested in networking and meeting up as well. 

If you rely on travel time to meet 750 hours, you're playing Russian roulette with the IRS.

Check out the Events and Meet Ups section for local events in your area.

There are many here in my local area and your area is likely to have the same type of meetings.Most of the deals that I fund are by meeting investors in person at these groups and creating strong relationships. 

See responses to your questions below: Correct, California is uniqueTo qualify for REPS you need to meet a number of criteria, including (but STRs that meet IRS criteria generally don't need REPS to leverage tax benefits): More than 50 percent of his/her time working in real property businesses; AND, More than 750 hours of service during the year.

There's a breakfast meeting at Pop's Sunset Grill in Nokomis every Tuesday at 8am.

Welcome Hunter,  this is a good place to meet others with similar goals. 

It is hard to really keep up with those kinds of trends unless I budget 10k a year in updating the property which I am not going to do.I participate in our local council/mayor meetings.