Would love to connect with other investors and grow in my experience with wholesale and eventually flipping houses.

Within a year my wife and I acquired four multi-families properties with a total of 20 units, and eventually another building to rent out (currently a bait and tackle shop) as well as an Ice House.

Keep learning...but if you really want to get involved, that means you will eventually have to take action. 

Located in: Trenton, NJ  one thing to realize and talk to your accountant about is if you assume it - do you assume it based on his cost basis, which could be a lot lower than the property value and then when you do eventually sell it, you could be hit with a nice capital gains bill. 

To start you may have to do everything but eventually you will want to build a business not a job that relies on your physical labor.  

I would wait till rates eventually go down and there are real opportunities in real estate and take advantage of it then

Cashflow may be minimal but rates will go down eventually, and at least in Coastal FL, values will go up (even higher). 

Both times I ate the expense of repair after the neighbor eventually had the tree cut-up and removed.

Is it feasible to get $96,000 in cash eventually from the second cash-out refinance in this way and keep expanding wealth in this way?

Securing a premium investment or dream property is always going to take some work, effort and overcoming eventual disappoint.