Beyond trying to connect on this forum would recommend look in the BP Meet up section and checking out local DFW FB RE investor Facebook groups as well as Meetup.com and Eventbrite for local events. 

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I'm a long-time listener of the Bigger Pockets Money Podcast. Due to time constraints (I was a graduate student), I've been holding all my investments passively in ETFs. However, I think some upcoming life cha...

We do have a few other investments besides RE, but they are baby investments.I'm very comfortable with my RE investments which have proven themselves over the last 30 years.

I found my handyman through my RE Agent. 

RE isn't the stock market. 

He needs  good RE broker to give him price its worth ..

I recently came in contact with a RE investor who is farther down the line in his career than I am.

Without the high leverage you reduce the top source of return in CA RE which is achieve via the appreciation on a high leverage property.  

Go to local meetups, search these forums for people that have mentioned that they do private lending and attend other RE events.

And that's the fact that the main entry point from an intrinsic standpoint on RE was during the outlier period.Real estate is not an intrinsic day 1 asset.