Doesn’t mean you can’t find a good deal, but from our quick search while we were there in May 2022, none of the places came close to meeting our criteria

You can also find real estate investing groups through meetup.com, Facebook, or a Google search.

I flip in areas I'm familiar with but even if not, it's not complicated to formulate comps from basic google searches.

Some will leave the state, but many will be in search of housing in state that does not exist.  

You can also check meetup.com or search Facebook for real estate investment groups, clubs, or meetings in your area.

Later in the video he says his students have had 12: https://www.google.com/search?

If you read the reviews of some of these places on Google it's apparent the management is poor in many of them and maintenance and capex has probably been ignored for a long time.

Your ranking in your area for the time guest search is everything for this business.

That is not normal for that area, but it is sometimes how things go.If you Google the street view of the Parker property, you will see that, in my opinion, it is not an area you want to be in long term.

I actually got introduced to BiggerPockets because I recently searched for REI audiobooks on Spotify that were free with my premium subscription and listen to How to Invest in Real Estate by Joshua Dorkin and Brandon Turner.