I would recommend doing some due diligence on that area and see if you're willing to broaden your horizons (although specific pockets of Smyrna and Douglasville are popular rental areas as well).

Im here to broaden my knowledge on all things related to real estate and meet indivduals who are willing to share their knowledge with me and maybe even invest with me on future deals

Components to be more precise I am looking to get into real estate investing to broaden my income.

Plus, it would broaden the topics to more than rentals (though the KARHA group does sometimes talk about other REI strategies).There's a Panera on West Main just off of 131.

College, more specifically learning, is something I value a lot, yet I feel like some aspects of college would take time away that I could be using to broaden my real estate knowledge.

If I were you, I would focus on specific areas and broaden my range to 2-12 units.

Prices have come up so fast that i have now broadened my search to other beltline neighborhoods that are somewhat better where you could probably buy cheaper.

We will broaden our search.

If you broaden your search to include a wider area you maybe able to combine the benefits of lower entry prices while not having to invest outside of this geographic area. 

I somehow happened upon some money that I thought was good enough to be a downpayment in the Toronto market, but when we broaden our search to Canada wide, we quickly realized that we could've bought a house cash, so that's what we did.