Just tell everyone!
As I have said many times, I am a completly noob and am in the infancy of my REI career. After hours of podcast, I decided that if I want to be serious about creating financial wealth through RE I have to learn to tell people that its part of what I do.
So today I begin talking to someone at work and inserted to "I'm looking to get into Real Estate" as part of the conversation and come to know he has invested in a 5 unit apartment across the street for Central Park and put down 60%, in my mind all i thought was "WHOA I have found a potential mentor"
All this to say is that you have to tell people what you are up to, tell that you are are a real estate investor, tell them that you will become a multimillionaire, or not you'll never take a chance on encountering the right people.