I can't afford the Boston area, so I've invested in property in Maine. 

The main aspects of real estate that I am interested in would be owning rentals, and working as a RE agent. 

My main goal now is to put together a team for when I really get started investing.

I have reached out to some members that I found via the search feature but haven't received many replys. 

You can message your tenants through the app about rent, maintenance, or whatever else.The best part is that Roof actually has a ton of features for your tenants to use with their roommates—expense splitting, managing household chores, etc.

The main skill is: finding "deals". 

That being said, there are three main apartment building brokers in the country, two being ARA and CBRE, so maybe you could take a look at that.Regarding the meetups, you should be able to find a good multifamily investing meetup/club where you can connect with like-minded people that are in the same niche and have the same interests as you do, like the Miami's Multifamily Investing Club down here in Miami where I live @Lennon Lee  if you don't find it in Ellicott, you'd probably find it in the nearest biggest city, like Baltimore for example.Hope this helps!

I've noticed at least for the Chicago area meet ups are mainly driven through meetup.com.

,Since you're a Plus/Pro member, try using the  Network feature.

My post is about recommendations and mainly for small landlords in NY.