I recently went to a conference where Meredith Wolff from Fourpoint Investments spoke.

I would suggest going to a weekend conference or multifamily bootcamp. 

@Shawn HarveyAttending self-directed retirement account conferences may be a good start.

Brad Grayson is in Columbus IN, and he does meetups and presents nationally at different real estate investing conferences..

From there I did as much research online and I went to conferences, I bought courses, read books,I listened to podcasts and youtube videos.A good place to start is with Fuquan Bilal's  book Called  "Turning distress into success".

They put on a real estate conference in the fall.

I was looking for signs of economic growth big employers hiring more employees, a new hotel and conference center was built, etc.

Most of the area immediately surrounding Yale's campus is either owned by Yale or institutional owners.I am not aware of a New Haven specific investor's group but there are a couple meetups on BP and the CTREIA has recently had a change in leadership and has been more worthwhile than before.Hope this helps!  

Would definitely recommend trying to get out to live events, whether it's local Meetups focused on the subject and there are a number of conferences around the country.

But your right I was talking to a flipper in LA at a conference and they do 600 to800k houses and were averaging about 15k per flip.. but they did 80 of them.. so while they made over a million for the year thats a ton of work and debt to manage.If your going to be successful flipping you have to be able to do volume as you clearly denote.. one at a time unless your hitting big numbers..