I'd love an investor only networking event and missed one set up by @priyanka. 

This is true even for a local move.Once the receiving HA approves the port, she will get a call giving her case worker assignment and telling her she needs to set up an appointment to come to their office for an orientation meeting.  

Example water front property, ski resort some along those linesSecond home, you have to intend to occupy the house for at portion of the year- Some lenders set overlays on length of time.

We initially set up our VRBO accounts to Instant Book which didn't  give us the opportunity to properly vet renters.

“Plan” is to Fix-N-Flip for 3-5 years and build a warchest with the long-term objective of acquiring multi-family properties for long-term income and wealth-building (for my partners, my children, and their children).  

I have a different set up completely.  

Just the costs of setting up a room, bringing the plumbing, gas, electric (I believe commercial machines run on 250 volts, which likely isn't wired in yet), having someone on-call to fix them whenever they break, might require too much capital.But:I'd wager I'm not telling you anything you didn't already know!

Setting aside 500 for property management and repair fees I came up with a offer of 135000 that will let me cash flow 400.

Propelio is great because they have a good topic each month (similar to the REIA) but they also have a big area outside the theater if your main objective is to network.

So glad you've discovered Bigger Pockets early in your real estate investing journey...and it looks like you've already made some good contacts here from your area....A few tips that may be helpful to you here on the BP website:You can set up keyword alerts so anytime someone posts about KC, Enterprise, or any of the specific markets you're evaluating, you'll be notified.