Personally I only follow three forums because it's local Indianapolis stuff and it helps my strategy to find distress properties. 

I will likely limit this to 5-8 people though, so first come first serve.I haven't done this before, but I figure we'd have an hourlong call 2x a month to discuss mostly stuff we are working on or trying to solve and exchange ideas.

I would say your best bet is just sitting down and seeing if they know their stuff.

Devoting energy to Facebook threads for this type of stuff keeps you from investing energy more profitably elsewhere.  

I’m old school with almost zero overhead and all these ROI, 50% rule stuff.

Doesn't hurt I love talking about this stuff.

This means there are scenarios where it's easier to get a big fat giant 30 year mortgage than rent a place for a year... go figure.Those are the big ones that need to be navigated, other than that it's pretty standard FTHB stuff.

In higher appreciation markets, you have to actually do stuff to make it happen, it's not just there on a silver platter.

There's a LOT of stuff out there. 

You can watch classes on general business stuff, a specific niche, or whatever.