So you don’t waste your and other people’s time.

As others said, find people who can help you learn. 

“Wealthy people buy real estate.”

*This is the new aspect for me, so if you guys have any extra tips like "try calling the utilities rather than doing a search", or "always double check with the zoning & permitting boards if you plan on doing STR for air b&b licenses", or even seeing if there are any extraneous departments that can cause headaches later like city inspector or the fire marshal, or some other thing that would be good to know about.Thanks so much in advance everyone --Side note, it is so refreshing to come to a site where people *want* to learn about title.

There are a couple of courses out there to train co-hosts - and likely those programs help you find leads to get started. 

i want to keep the group small. not like industry scale crowdfunding.if I can find a property which has okay cashflow (which is hard anyways). and can collect around 10/20 people who wants to invest some cash each.I build a company to own the property and give each person a share. and give yearly dividend to each, until sold.

@Brady Parmentier, you need to tell people what state you're in because how property taxes work differ quite a bit from area to area.

A lot of people get stuck in analysis paralysis and the cost of the special training/programs combined with the equity lost by not being in the market and passing up on good properties ends up costing them more in the long run. 

On a few older forums, I saw Listsource and networking as possible leads for these properties.

Many people lose money on their first flip so this is not bad at all for a first one.