An accountant is a general job title that may potentially do one of many different tasks(bookkeeping, reviewing financials, assurance, taxation, etc)Bookkeepers are specific that they will likely only do the bookkeeping.

If I were to do it again I would do exactly what you are doing.- Is your goal to be financially independent, nice retirement, or just have a nice little profitable side hustle?

How do I go about doing this? 

Do you own your primary residence?

Do you write your own assignable contracts or you have an Atty do it?

do you think this venue was a bad choice ??? 

What do you mean your investors?

They're all obvious and simple, but do require work.

Quote from @Theodore Sutton: Check out the site meetup.com and also the events page on BP for meetings up in your area to meet people like this and build relationships.

Yes they do.