Additionally, have a clear budget, factoring in potential repair costs, and ensure you understand the rules about earnest money deposits and closing deadlines.LLC for Real Estate Investing: Forming an LLC for rental properties can offer liability protection and may provide tax advantages, though the tax benefits are non-existence for rentals.

My thought is that the people that ARE using it for lead gen/outreach, automation etc. will keep the methods to themselves until the advantage of early adoption is done and that business segment is saturated, then they will sell courses to everybody else..

If you want to take advantage of selling it and take advantage of a great interest rate you can do both.   

Even though your market might prove expensive, I would exhaust all options before ruling it out.Truth is, you have a unique competitive advantage in your market.  

The strategies require a good amount or luck and effort and sometimes finding and taking advantage of a seller with equity.

I'd be happy to connect with you and will keep an eye out for resources I think we can both take advantage of.Best,Marc  Will do!!

There are other ways to be part of the real estate industry besides being an investor and those may be more financially advantageous for you. 

This is a great place to learn and to connect with people so take advantage of all the great resources.

., and based on previous life experience, I am confident somehow, somewhere, someday, I'll be able to use this information to my advantage.

For example: the multifamily sponsors will usually pay the considerable extra cost required to do a cost segregation analysis and this will increase the investor depreciation in the early years (versus an individual, direct investor who often will skip doing this because of the cost).The advantage of the passive investment is that you don't do any work.