You will always have clinic people and downtowners that want to live in the closest eastern suburb, and it has some character. 

Here in SA some of our cheapest most run down areas are closest to downtown and the better rental areas are out in the Suburbs.

(he has a quota)Once you have that, you have just saved money on materials...The way I do it is to have my contractor call in a list of materials to the closest HD... when he arrives to pick up, they call me, e-mail me the paperwork, and I approve using my discount.

I think Bay Area Wealth Builders may be the closest regular one to you, unless you can find something on meetup.com up there..I buy/fix/hold in the Bay.

What is the best Philly Cheese Steak spot for us to try while we're there? 

If it's true that we are the average of the five (5) people closest to us, then we must find regularly meet with those who will influence us positively and directly. 

I looked up the groups and the closest is like 2hours away.

Chose the one closest to us, Raleigh, only 2-3 hours away from where we lived at the time, and took a few weekends going down and familiarizing ourselves with the area, took current listings and drove the neighborhoods before contacting any agents, got comfortable with the area, decided on neighborhoods.

At present, I'm only interested in duplexes that I could house hack(Wife &I live on one side) on the east side which is closest to both our jobs and in area that the wife is comfortable living in.

Hello bigger pockets I've been studying real estate for years...and I'm soooo ready to take that next step now...but I don't have a team the people who are closest to me know nothing about it...any real estate groups in Newark NJ?