While investment groups are good, I also recommend you also schedule lunch/beer/coffees with a range of active professionals across the spectrum: brokers, title, CPA, small contractor, attorney, etc.  

Many of the investors in RI are on here, others can be found in local networking groups like RIREIG or Black Diamond REI, and many others you only encounter out "in the wild" when you're doing deals.

@David Weintraub thank you for responding.Until a person builds a network of trusted lenders, we end up having to knock on doors and present our Property, it's Benefits and our Exit Strategy....

Just joined biggerpockets, and excited to expand my network.

Sincerely,Ken Ken-I don’t have any steps or advise, although I too have looked into this myself.If you have an attorney and CPA it might be good to begin with them to find out the pros/cons of doing this. 

I'm working on building my network but at this point don't have the knowledge of any private money lenders. 

I am trying to get an answer from my exchange intermediary who says that is a question for my CPA.

In other words you receive a 30% tax credit on the solar system as well as a 30% tax credit at the least on the roof that is under the solar system (full roof 30% depends on the advice of your CPA).Couple that with the roof now becoming a producing asset and offsetting the utility bill instead of a liability and the increase in appraised home value assuming the solar system is not leased then going solar makes a lot of sense at the same time as replacing/repairing a roof.

Tom Wheelright (rich dad advisor, cpa) has quite a bit to say about using 401k/IRA for real-estate investing.  

I think we’ve got a pretty great town for networking, so hopefully I’ll get the network built up nice and strong here as quick as possible