Most of the investors I talk with have a hard time finding deals that work on the market.The investors that I work with are finding that New Construction is a good option.  

I have a hard time visualizing things myself so using Alex has been a god send, here's her website https://www.cheatsheetdesign.com/ It's around $400 for her help and personally is worth it to me just to save my time!

As home prices in NJ are very high, it makes the decision to go FHA VS live-in Conventional hard for me.

Its a hard explanation on this part of the industry however I have decided to stay away from real estate and continue my path investing in the SMP500.

I would agree it is hard to find beautiful properties that cashflow.  

Yes, one approach is to continue with finding other cash flowing property.Let me suggest some other ideas for you to ponder, especially since you've also mentioned you are looking hard at DST's:What about Opportunity Zone funds? 

It would be hard for me to pass up building a bigger place to take advantage of that creek view.

@Vinny Muli - it is VERY hard but not impossible to get an equity line of credit on a non owner occupied property. 

That is our Bible or road plans for repositioning value plays in good hard working blue Collar areas of Ohio.  

One of the utilities, South West Gas, based in CA, gave me a hard time putting the account into my own name. after several calls, faxing the court-stamped eviction order, verifying my deed through the County, etc,  the operator finally agreed and started to backdate the account change to the beginning of the process!