The combination of its growing tech & healthcare sector, long-term resilience to climate change, and relative affordability makes it an interesting place to start our real estate journey.I spent a big part of my career in hospitality real estate consulting at a Big 4 firm, but I left to explore new opportunities and decided it was finally time to take the leap into real estate investing.

and have it narrowed down geographically and by sector.  

I personally dont do any of that.. every market / or most will have an active fix and flip sector or buy and hold sector the important thing to me is the operator full stop.. great operator will do well in any market and all the national data simply is noise at least at my level. ( loaning our own money and JV deals with our own money)  we dont broker or anything like that.

One example would be the office sector being hit hard with defaults.

The question I'm up against is what private money is going for these days for a build with this much room for upside.

We invest in every property type, in cities across the country, with different syndicators or private partners.

It is in a desirable area of town, in the same sector/neighborhood of properties ranging from 500k-1.5million.

This means your tenants' private-sector jobs will eventually end.

I am familiar with being licensed thru nmls but never heard of any other type of certification  means nothing.. its just a private company non accredited.. 

I have met some private investors that are interested in helping me with the funding of my flip, but I haven't found any properties yet.