@Jay Helms I stand up during the members part of our monthly in-person REIA meetings, and announce that I'm happy to talk to, or have coffee with, anyone who wants to talk about real estate.And then, because of that and the fact that some folks recognize me from posting on BP, I usually have a ton of people come up to me during the break and after the main meeting.To be honest, it's exhausting, and sometimes I head to the bathroom just to hide for a few minutes before I can deal with The Crowd.

Vicente if you would like to grab a coffee I could walk you through what people are doing around here and leave you with some ideas.

I thought this might be an opportunity for me to go from 0-2 rental properties in one acquisition. 

What you need to do if you want to be an investor is to look for actually motivated sellers.

There isn't going to be an outright decline as we saw when the market crashed before.

@AJ Whitaker, Hey, I am not the most familiar with that area but could be an area to look into for your investing.

I self manage, but a property manager would be an easy solution to not having experience. 

Purchase a home that needs small updates that could be an easy flip in value and stay there while you renovate, then refinance or remove private mortgage insurance, followed by renting it out.

My personality is such that I’m cynical about any guru or paid boot camp but I’m sure others here have had good experiences.I’m happy to meet for coffee, etc if helpful and in the greater Boston area.A few groups I’m aware of are Ocean City out of Wakefield and Brownstone AG and there are always the homeVestors (we buy ugly houses) folks. 

It can be a good market for investing, but can also be an illiquid market and very tricky.