Start small with strategies like house hacking, leveraging your hands-on skills for value-add properties, and building a strong team or network to reduce risks.

NETWORK!!!

That way you can hopefully do renovations as tenants move out one by one and start to build your network of contractors.

I'm open to network with anyone with comments, advice, or knowledge that they feel would be helpful. 

You could try Commerical Real Estate Investing and Commerical Real Estate Network

They’ll have a strong network and be more in tune with the opportunities available in the rental market, whether you're interested in single-family homes or multi-unit buildings.If you're focusing on single-family homes, try to keep them within the same area.

Taking a break from buying but not from learning and networking. 

Then to find inventory, you need to search out, i.e. network, and find out who is creating these type of notes or you help people that may have an interest in seller financing how to create a note that is marketable to the secondary market.

Looking forward to networking and potentially working with this amazing community! 

I'd love to connect with you and be a part of your network!