There is an informal meet-up happening on the 31st in Lakewood, you can find the link to the meet below.http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/220...These meetings are very informal and a good way to start connecting with other investors, from folks with hundreds of units under management, a thousand or more wholesales, or guys just starting out without a single property under their name yet.

Anyone can talk a good game, I have seen hundreds do so. 

Just think about all the time you don't have a headache but the one time you do you want a pain reliever and medicine cabinet is empty.

I found used cabinets on craigslist, countertop at habitat,  front door at a garage sale,  appliances from the next door neighbor, paid people with pizza and beer to paint. 

The best way to learn is to get a real estate license, work on a habitat house so you have some idea of how construction works and have a chance to meet contractors, and attend your local housing finance authorities free classes on real estate financing.These things can all be completed in a couple of hundred hours, max, at a cost of a few hundred dollars, and will put you in the top 1% of "wholesalers."

Another guy had several hundred houses and apartment units.

That line is typically hundreds/thousands of hours of study, research, hard work and experience.  

It's a good idea anyway, for the educational benefits.Based on somewhat I've heard, it costs hundreds if not a couple of thousands to be an REA in CA.

Which I think I struck out again because out of these several hundred pages only the estates owners names are listed and not the petitioners/admins/executors nor the addresses.

You won't find two people in a hundred who know I'm partially paralyzed myself.