You can meet local investors by registering to attend real estate events in your area: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521-events-and-happenings6.

It's a great time to start.While there's no one-size-fits-all approach, just read books and articles on real estate investing,attend webinars and workshops.Why don’t we connect together let’s build up our Real-estate journey.

So you'll have owner finance terms+ lease payment terms from the landlord + utilities + attendant/staffing costs.

I look forward to attending your next meetup. 

Attend meetups and meet as many people in RE as you can.

I will attend this meetings and keep my job and I think I feel a little better about it because of what you said.

Connect with local real estate agents, attend meetups, or hop on online forums.

If a student wants to attend a LEGITIMATE university but their background indicates they won’t be successful an ethical college will reject their application.  

There are TONS of real estate meet ups you can attend monthly.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has seen record enrollment in recent years: it set its highest attendance in history, with over 57,000 students enrolled and in 2024 just had highest freshman attendance in history and keeps growing, Carle Hospital, Craft Factory (Warren Buffett approves), etc for diversity of economic drivers.