For funding, explore options like FHA loans, personal savings, or creative financing, and focus on New Jersey markets that align with your goals, such as Newark for rentals or commuter towns for house hacking.

A contract is only as good as the person enforcing it.

It does have Power dialer and when leads come in, I know it's from that person that integrates with my CRM.

CA has more than half of the nations homeless/unsheltered persons. 

So when you build your pocket neighborhood, which is an interesting concept, what's to stop an undesirable person from moving in.

Personally I like the Section 8 program when the property is located in a super poor area with a ton of blight and crime.

The person who comes into money but not a lot of experience in real estate should be a little more cautious right now.So overall, I am not saying - do not buy, I am saying be careful.

Figure out which best fits you and your personality and take it from there.  

Be that person who set's up some STR's there, runs em there, and really caters it to the US "bucket list" tourist. 

First person I hired, I also had them write their own job procedures and so on.