How to start with little money in EXPENSIVE area?

[Yuval Shabtay]

My friend and I want to start investing in real estate, we can come up with 50-100k as starting capital.

We live in a very expensive place, North New Jersey, where price are basically unreal (especially after the pandemic where everybody from NYC came here and bumped all the prices).

What and where do you recommend us starting with?

We can go anywhere in the 3-hour-drive-range?

Thank you all!