I live in Northern New Jersey (Jersey City), & work in Manhattan NYC . 

It has no natural boundary (like Manhattan) constraining it's growth.

Welcome @Anna Hamann (and @Jillian Johnson too :-)I am also a new investor in the area (though I now live in Maplewood, NJ, short train ride from Manhattan).

I can work with you in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens.

and have enough money to buy Manhattan, but on the other hand - you are looking to impress someone that you have knowledge and the means to purchase their house.So, I think you need to work on the knowledge and impress them so they dont notice the car.  

Hello Everyone,Brief introduction about myself, I am 24 and I currently work for an Investment Bank (but looking to change that in the future, want to be my own boss :)) within their internal audit shop based in Manhattan, NY.

Manhattan still takes the cake.

As I've been networking (REIA meetings, social media, phone calls, email, SMS, etc.) with investors in those counties and also Westchester, Queens and Manhattan for close to a year now, I've made a significant number of contacts in the area so I might be able to help BP members in the areas connecting and getting deals marketed and sold.

Try New York Real Estate School they are located in the Manhattan

But I met their nice 30 yr old son who already lived in the neighborhood, and the narrative of their financial problems due to health emergency was compelling, as was her starting a well documented new office job in Manhattan that would be enough income even without her husband's.