You may want to read up a bit on this topic before proceeding to make sure you understand the key differences.

Profit can potentially reach up to $200K depending on amount of repairs needed. 

A lot of the time event hosts will not reach out ahead of time, so I would just show up and see if it is still active.

My name is Mando, I was raised and grew up in Brownsville!

My LLC entity is set up in NY and I am also operating in NY.

If you're able to, start networking at local Milwaukee real estate meetups---this is the very best education and inspiration that you will ever find--I started real estate by signing up for a guru program but by far, my best education came from speaking to other active local investors who are actually doing deals or have built financial freedom---the nationwide guru program only taught about flips and rentals but there are so many different strategies that locals have and are successfully doing.

Hi Sara, I'm confident there is a meet up but I have not found it yet.

I've been in Rod's small group for about 6 months up to this point.  

Many sellers will be fine with that (depending on the price they're getting of course), it's just important for them to know about it up front.

A search may pull them up.