Looking for advise getting started

[David Colson]

Hey there BP community, I have been in real estate in one way or another my whole life. I owned a remodeling business for over 10yrs and for the past 10yrs I've been working as an HVAC technician. While still doing some remodeling on the side. I found BP just over 2 months ago and have listened to over 50 episodes of the podcast, it has blown my mind on ways to become a real estate investor. I have reached out to some of the investors that I've worked for over the years and none of them showed any interest in working with me or mentoring me. I live in Binghamton, NY, it's a small city and everybody seems to be buying everything up and turning it into student housing, maybe that's why no one is interested. Does anyone have any ideas or am I going about this wrong? I'm looking for advice on my approach. My plan is to do some fix and flips while trying to pick up some buy and holds along the way. I trying to find a way to start working with investors instead of working for them! Thanks, everyone