New North Jersey investors

[Arash Baseri]

Hello everyone, I have been following BP for a while and finally decided to post. We are 3 newbie investors with existing full time jobs looking to start flipping, and work 1-2 days a week each to take care of the flipping. Looking to start small and get our hands dirty and if it means not making any money on our first flip, we are ok, as we feel like learning the process is more valuable. We are in the Springfield area in Union county and also familiar with Bergen County. For the flippers out there in north jersey, how do you find your properties? Do you have an agent that works with you? I feel like every bank owned property that we are interested in gets sold without us getting a chance to look at it since seller's agents don't return our calls to show us the property, should we get a real estate agent who is familiar how to work the system? Any recommendations? Should we start with auctions or is that too risky? Any help to start the conversation is appreciated. Looking forward to this journey and learning from everyone here in BP.