There are free and paid memberships.

But, it is free with a BiggerPockets Pro Membership and I think the featureset is excellent. 

I canceled my Pro membership when it was up for renewal - I just don't relate as well to many in the leverage-happy BP community.

Get a membership at your local library and download the Overdrive app on iOS or Android.

Your Pro membership allows you to post your meetups in the Events & Happenings Forum , which is where people go on BiggerPockets to find local meetups. 

As @Mike Palmer suggested, get in touch with Paul and his folks over at UAA and pay them the $100 (or whatever) membership.  

@Steven Bays - the REIA is a particularly good deal if you can wrangle another investor (or prospective investor) to sign up with you, as they almost give away the second membership.

I bought 1 house through them and captured more equity than my membership cost.

Otherwise, yes, you can pay by the meeting, or purchase a yearly membership.

"pass through", can own other corporations, and offers the ability to have a "Cafeteria" plan- that is, you can (provided you meet all the requirements-- namely offering the SAME package to ALL employees-- again, see your tax / legal professional) pay for things like your health club membership, an automobile lease, and other benefits with pre-tax dollars.I use separate LLC's for buy and hold, and quick-turn or "Dealer" properties to avoid the risk of the IRS calling ALL my properties "dealer" properties.Rule of thumb you're going to need two years of business history (at least be established for two years) to start applying for business credit-- but depending on the credit worthiness of the owners, or a collateral, etc. you may be able to get a line of credit sooner.From Credit Repair to Credit Millionaire describes this in detail, and a guy named Tom Kish has a good product on this, too.