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.

Yes I did receive the funds which surprised me a little. 

@Jay Hinrichs Gave me a good suggestion to ask the BP community if anyone has partnered with Y Street Capital Victor Menasce before as a Limited funding Partner.  

Everyone’s got the same problem: STR oversaturationPrices are high in most markets and if/when you do buy, your competition is fierce thus pushing down nightly rates and occupancy rates in almost every worthwhile marketGood luck fixing that! 

Quote from @Micheal Smoke: Hi, my name is Mike Smoke, and I'm an aspiring real estate investor focusing on multifamily and Section 8 properties in the U.S. as the barrier to entry is much much lower in terms of price compared to Canada and Funding options. 

Because next thing, without a doubt, will be all about taking Federal funds to pay for all this.

The core principles in The Book on Rental Property Investing still hold up, but higher interest rates definitely change the game.

With rates coming down should help some sellers off load over priced properties and will help buyers get aggressive with good class A and B locations.

Well if you ran realistic conservative numbers for maintenance, capex, vacancy rates, rental income, etc then you don't really need cash flow do you?

There are many here in my local area and your area is likely to have the same type of meetings.Most of the deals that I fund are by meeting investors in person at these groups and creating strong relationships.