As far as investment strategy goes you'd again want to consider what kind of market you're in -- but a personal favorite to start with is definitely House Hacking as that should lower or get rid of most peoples largest expense in Housing -- leaving you with more money to save to invest!

We are also the largest city in South Dakota so we are attracting a ton out-of-state people moving here to avoid all the politics. 

Purchase price: $270,000 Cash invested: $100,000 We recently closed a successful investment deal on a duplex that we acquired off-market through a strong relationship with one of the largest investors in our town.

The biggest obstacle to overcome by far, is not so much that you need to find clients (although believe me, that's also difficult and is a constant effort until you're able to rely on referrals from past clients), but the customers you interact with need to trust you with their largest asset as a seller, and for one of the largest purchases they will make in their lives as a buyer. 

The two largest players got too greedy and now they really aren’t needed.

There are many CA investors that like the proximity to home, job growth, and the recreation activities.

@Paul Scavello The trucking companies will know where the sources for fill are, Allied trucking is one of the larger ones there.Dickerson in Fort Pierce is one of the largest site contractors there, and own pits.

Winton-Salem is the 5th largest city in NC, and 89th largest in the US.Development: I spoke previously about I-40 and some of it's developments.

My huge issue with these guys (and Wealthability) is the business formula appears to be the following:Master guru sucks you in with their knowledge via books, podcasts, Youtube, seminar.Master guru tries to hire minions to re-create his success (it underdelivers)Master guru tries to scale too fast and becomes more of a salesman (clients further suffer)I am interested in learning more about this and can deal with negative reviews but the negative ones outweigh the positive ones online for Anderson and in 2023 no less, so this is an active problem. 

So we had "covid shock", but we are very solid with mountain recreation.