I was looking for signs of economic growth big employers hiring more employees, a new hotel and conference center was built, etc.

Most of the area immediately surrounding Yale's campus is either owned by Yale or institutional owners.I am not aware of a New Haven specific investor's group but there are a couple meetups on BP and the CTREIA has recently had a change in leadership and has been more worthwhile than before.Hope this helps!  

But your right I was talking to a flipper in LA at a conference and they do 600 to800k houses and were averaging about 15k per flip.. but they did 80 of them.. so while they made over a million for the year thats a ton of work and debt to manage.If your going to be successful flipping you have to be able to do volume as you clearly denote.. one at a time unless your hitting big numbers..

Read books, go to conferences and meet-ups and engulf yourself into podcasts.

Do you plan to attend the Papersource conference next month?

I’ll be joining you in May for the conference in Indy.  

Attended any MeetUps or Conferences?

**When you go to networking events/conferences, go with a purpose: To learn - yes, of course; but also to meet a couple of people you might be future partners with or whom might be future investors for you if you choose to syndicate your own deals.

If it wont be a "active brokerage", I believe it will be a epic failure.Agents need hands on support.Agents need leadership and motivation.Otherwise a bunch of useless goons will just park their license by you, and not generate you any real $Iv'e seen it all, literally.....

However I don’t have a main office And just use title company conference rooms if I need to meet in an office as do my agents.