Personally, i would be cautious telling the majority of experienced owners/hosts they are wrong without rock solid data and evidence.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/530/topics/1155394-have...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/530/topics/1155264-afte... 

If you are just looking to network I would go the route of meetups locally (you can check above at the toolbar, hoover over forums then to the right you have events and meetups.If you are looking to wholesale and build a list of buyers that fix and flip for deals you may have then I would pull lists from 3rd party sites like Property Radar or propstream.

If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask them here on this forum.

From what I've read so far on these forums, don't start out investing in C- or lower blocks. 

For many on these forums, real estate is not so much an investment as it is a business for them.  

Read "Long-Distance Real Estate Investing" by David Greene, then spend some time reading through the forums.

Everyone in the forums is cheering for you. 

Here are some coming on BP: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521-real-estate-events-...We have a list of a lot more investor meetups that I will happily share with you. 

The rental had ratty furniture, a record player prominently featured in the marketing but it had no speakers, missing basics items in the kitchen, lots of drunks in the concrete hallways that reverberated right into the bedroom at 2am, a strong odor of urine outside, and more.We have super hosts in this forum that have hundreds of 5-star reviews and are masters of the craft, but I look at their rentals and see they don't have any artwork on the walls, decor is basic, they do nothing to make the guest feel welcome, etc. 

Also, the forum concensus seems to be that at this time having an LLC would not provide any benefits and the lenders I have talked with so far are unwilling to do the deals with LLC.