@Tim Bergstrom I am a lender with a local bank here in Louisville and an investor personally as well. 

I am new to real estate investing and looking to connect with any local investor.

I’m also interested in connecting with local investors, real estate agents, and lenders who are open to collaborating on new opportunities.

Joining ULI/NAIOP in your local city could help too.

Here are additional comments:1) Buying out of state removes any local knowledge you have from assisting in your success, including knowing areas, people and costs. - We always recommend buying your first rental locally if possible and DIY managing to learn as much as possible before investing OOS.2) Lots of crooks and incompetents in the PMC world:( They both cost you money.- As already stated, you'll have a small portfolio.

Real estate is so localized that most federal based policy changes don't have massive influence.I can see him (semi-)privatizing Freddie/Fannie.

You can check with the Better Business Bureau (BBB), your state’s department of business oversight, or your local real estate community.5.

That will give you a good idea of how it will go.Plus you can go over to https://awning.com/airbnb-estimator and put in some addresses and see the local competition.

I took a 5 minute video of a long-term unit and put it on YouTube, that saved a ton of time for Denver local prospective tenants!

Learned that I needed a realtor that was local to the property location.