@Michael Challenger glad you are making the BIG step and starting your 1st flip.

Personally, I started off getting referrals from other real estate investors when building my team but eventually found and added my own people to my network over time.

Start with BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginners Guide (free).

Attend your local REIA and start connecting.  

The numbers are in line with anyone who starts a business, it's like a 90% fail rate to be an entrepreneur.

@Benjamin Larabee I'm a longtime investor, and just started a new bookkeeping business.

Might want to start that conversation with the lender if this looks like a possibility.

While I fully invest remotely these days, I wouldn't start new in REI in a remote market until learning the ropes in my local market.

Unless you plan on scaling rapidly and just want to set things up a certain way starting out.

I've worked with some Canadians buying  here in Ohio.Indeed, rather than selling your stocks to fund investments (and lose out on any potential price appreciation and dividend payments, as well as incurring capital gains taxes), a nice alternative is to borrow against some percentage of the holdings.You would start with the brokerage where you hold the stocks and see what their loan program looks like for the account you hold.