I have been reading the online resources about getting started, searching the market, and even doing tours, but I am hesitant to jump in and buy a house as I have quite a large amount of student debt.

Go to BUILD YOUR TEAM at the top of the screen and look for local investors or meetups in your area.

However, if a deal falls through, we'll keep searching for more deals until you get one closed. 

I found this one on realtor.com by doing a search that only showed me properties with asking prices no higher than $150k

If you want to go in person, just search in Stamford and you will find one.

However, my under writing due to the recent rate hikes shows large cash negative after a high LTV refi to extract the equity so I am not currently actively pursuing BRRRRS and I find this is true for many of the local investors that were doing brrrrs a few years ago.  

The easiest is doing a search for REI Meetups.

In 2022 the rents increased 12.1% year over year which was the 3rd highest in the entire country per https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2023/02/14/cleveland-rent-prices.

Also a local eviction attorney claims the LL winning rate in evictions is near 100% even with the friendly tenant laws.  

Trying to make it where there is a lot of data, easy to use, and have a lot of articles written by local experts.