I did start broadening my search area to Guntersville/Athens/Decatur but the number of properties out there right now wasn't encouraging especially with the pricing people are wanting for them. 

You're going to have to broaden your target markets.

It broadens one's mind because "10 year agency debt is safest or best" might indeed be too simplistic.

I just need to broaden my circle.

After grasping Wholesaling, would love to broaden my real estate investments to other things, i.e Tax Lien, Tax Deed, etc.Right now, I am wholesaling in-state, North Carolina.  

Keep looking for what you can do today, and continue working on broadening your options for tomorrow.

Those who couldn’t keep up with the Blackstone’s and the American Homes for Rent, etc, so while the big guys had rigid guidelines to go by, the small to mediums had to broaden their criteria.To the smaller guys, we actually created a sales letter presenting ourselves as a boutique wholesaling group that would take their criteria and them off market properties that met their requirements.While we got multiple funds that we ended doing business with, we found one group in particular that jumped on our offer.Of the 360+/- deals we did annually, We ended up doing over 300 to the one fund who began putting in monthly orders each time a train h of funds came in.While we didn’t make huge spreads, we made up for that in volume.If you would like to see our sales letter, feel free to message me.

I think everything after the house hack is potentially TBD as, hopefully, you'll keep learning about real estate and broaden your mind and horizons so you can determine what area of real estate excites and draws you.

Being and investor to me broadens ways I'll make a profit on that particular propety.

They have expanded and broadened to Syndication… another tool in the toolbox of multifamily investing.