Then start shopping for houses, don't engage in FOMO or real estate agent pressure. 

As well as coffee shops like Bottoms Up Coffee are moving in and small microbreweries like brew dog and Land Grant.

I am on the lending side of things and if you ever want to chat shop about financing, I am always happy to do so. 

You magically get the seller to cover every single closing cost (A $12k gift, or a trick to get you to buy their problem.).

Only higher volume shops . 

I actually had come across your post below in the Events forum and thought to myself it would have been nice to attend that to see first hand a local flip and talk shop about the process.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/1215682-chec...I am happy to hear that someone with your experience in the region feels that Westchester is a market with some potential.

They've gone as far as writing algorithms that pull data points like crime rates, age, median income, number of coffee shops and hundreds of others to create heat maps of where to buy.  

I find that it's almost a one stop shop in that I can use it for my business checking and savings accounts, bookkeeping, for rent collection, I can issue virtual credit card, I can create all the financial reports I need to run my real estate business and prepare for tax filing and through their partners I can vet my tenants, develop state-specific leases and more.

This will help out tremendously when I start shopping for an agent.

And then you could take your time shopping for long term financing once you own the property.