Thank you for tagging those two individuals and including the link to join their organization.

HI and congrats on your decision, learn a lot from here join some of the local meetups (now Zoom) get yourself a good group of trades men like plumber, HVAC, electrician that will be the most important, mortgage broker ( don't depend 100% on banks) and like Carlos said a good home inspector, you can find some well train at Internachi.org or ASHI, this are national associations and have a very good requirements to be one.

Every landlord in CA needs to join CAA and support the organization with money to help advocate.

Depending on how your numbers work out, you could potentially be able to legitimately “wipe out” the income.

Join groups on social medias for investing/REI in the area you're trying to find a team with.

"Join me for my one week workshop!

It's a great community you have joined. 

I think Cincy has a large RE Investing association too that you could join.

You've got some pretty good contacts already above, and I would also suggest you join in on the next local meet up.

Still researching the market for a potential areas to buy in and would love to join your REI community.