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.

Quote from @Jaikevis Reams: In order to put a property under contract I need to provide proof of funds I know that I can get that from a hard money lender but I don’t meet there criteria for a loan approval what should I do? 

@Davis Barnes come to the Friday 9/4/20 breakfast meeting in downtown Charleston. 7:30-9am at 60 bull cafe

I'm connected with a group in Indianapolis that meets monthly. 

Quote from @Anthony Poulin: @Abel CurielAbel, great to meet you. 

Here's a list of local meet ups.

Hey @Jason Brown Nice to meet you.