NJ is saturated and taxes are too high so I've begun looking in CT and would love some advice on areas/to connect with some investors.

depending what you want to do will depend on where you need to look. we are building in East Tampa right now, but even that is becoming saturated.

Even paying top salary it is hard when you have saturated a market like they have.

Rehabs are getting saturated. 

My 'retail" world revolves around Fountain Square and Bates Hendricks which have a unique saturation issue.   

I'm also noting a saturation of STR in the popular areas, and a resultant drop in nightly rates to stay competitive.  

If the market is saturated when they get out of college and the degree has little value now the kid is in really big trouble feeding the large student debt instead of their dreams.Being real a lot of college degrees these days are worthless and the institutions make money selling a dream to the parents sending the kids there.

But in general, just factor how much new paint and flooring will cost, plus a little extra for primer and possibly subfloor if it is really saturated. 

I look around Indy, and I see obvious places to invest, but they seem over-saturated with investors already and I wonder how much success I could actually achieve there (fountain square, I'm looking at you).

If anything we can use more appartments in the medium price ranges $800 to $1200, but we are definitley getting into saturation with new construction rents $1700 to $3000.