Work with experienced local realtors, attend investor meetups, and use tools like Zillow, Redfin, and Rentometer to analyze potential properties.Good luck!

Once in a lifetime event.  

I highly recommend attending real estate networking events to meet more people is this space and pick their brain and learn more from their projects and see what is working and what is not.

In my devious mind, I thinking like you that I hire a parking attendant, install gates and charge an entrance fee if I bought it. 

Looking forward to connecting and hopefully seeing you at one of the upcoming events!

I would also add that you would find value in attending real-estate meet ups. 

Alternately, if you’re going to do this at volume, and you’ll have to since margins here are thin, I would attend some of the lender conferences.

Quote from @April Smalls: Due to Holidays, there arent many events or networking opportunites. have you posted in the classifieds the deal you are looking to fund?

Quote from @Michell Chase: It isn't a large amount but my concern is that if I remove the tenant in July I have no deposit in the event that there are damages to the unit. 

I would be able to manage the finances, marketing and showings even while working but maybe not attend to the small stuff such as getting a random call to fix something stupid at 3pm when I'm 6 hours out of town or on my 30th day of night shift 12s.