For those that are also on their REI journey, but didn't have a chance to attend the conference, what is your niche in this market/location?

I look forward to continuing to learn from the BiggerPockets community as I navigate my real estate investing journey.I’ve had some success on the eastern shore of Maryland, though even that market has started to frankly become expensive, there are still pockets of potential growth both rent & appreciation, thoigh it’s becoming harder to find, also there is a massive rental shortage out there, a county I just put a property contract on, literally has 3 properties for rent right now, but it does make rental comps quite difficult, outside of that I’ve started looking a little more into western Md and some southern pa markets but still trying to get a feel for them, overall I think in this market places that are affordableish and have some draw will do well with the continued wfh + affordability crisis but keep in mind while I think the eastern shore is actually fairly safe market for the most part a lot of rural areas definitely have boom bust potential and in theory more risk than dc metro, though the low price points do by definition tend to mitigate some of those risks. 

I have found my private investors by the following - personal friends, local meetups, real estate conferences.

Maybe I am wrong, because I am very new to this, but I wouldn't discount the eastern side of the state just yet.

For loving outdoors, hopefully you are moving to Eastern Idaho.

The IMN Single Family Rental East and West conferences are always great opportunities to meet with the most active residential rental experts in the country.

I started speaking at real estate and note conferences and realized that the people that were teaching note investing had absolutely zero credit background themselves.

As far as location’s you will more or less be limited to D.C. and frankly not great areas in the city, there are pockets of Maryland that have them, mainly some parts of Baltimore, a few parts of Baltimore county, Takoma park, Hagerstown & a few parts of the eastern shore but the vast vast majority will be in D.C. 

Also, we are having a Vacation Rental Zoom on 2/10 at 6pm Eastern time, message me if you want the link to join.  

Here in Eastern CO a 35 acre lot will run you $150-200k.