I really want to do local meetups and interact with more advanced investors but don’t know where to start.

It comes with guides on how to ride the tubes, a crash course in local customs, places of interest, places to avoid, and holly cow it looks just like what they had in there heads of what a London "flat" would look like, so charming and so "Brit"..... 

Unless you use a local professional familiar with the market, who you trust, best way to know a good deal is to study the market.

The BiggerPockets community is great for guidance, but nothing beats local mentorship.

I also think people are looking to commute less with their kids, especially in elementary school and therefore want the local elementary school to be good enough.

I financed this property using down payment funds from 403B and a local commercial bank.

I’d like to opportunistically invest @Jillian EzLike Russell said, this was a fabricated story by a local realtor team that caught fire in the news.

I love learning ideas to make my business better from other local investors.

When dealing with federal, state, and local NOFA (notice of funds availabilities), do government funds allocated for affordable housing often get depleted from too many developers requesting funds for new projects?

As others said out of state can be more challenging based on location but local or out of state both can be done.