With COVID still an issue, as well as many places being closed, I figured that beginning a virtual real estate investment association would be much easier than meeting in person, and also give us philly investors a time and a place to collaborate. 

Great points, the research and time to build each one is an art.

Are you thinking of having a virtual meetup, and then transition to a traditional meet when its safer to do so?

I’m not a fan of it either but it seems to be getting more and more popular with certain companies and Virtual Wholesalers who are tacking on 20k+ on deals they didn’t originally source.By the way, they ended paying me a finders fee of sorts without me asking of 1k.

They sit behind the keyboard and play virtually real estate investor everyday like a video game. 

However, right now I would love to dive into the world of rehabbing properties, as I feel this is a great way to master the art of finding deals, building connections, learning the renovation process, and building capital to ultimately reinvest into rentals.

I am VERY frugal with my money (I work part-time now in an unrelated field) I don't have a degree higher than an associate in arts degree that I recently earned.

.#5 Practice, Practice, PracticeWalkthrough potential rehab properties (or find properties virtually online) and practice creating detailed scopes of work, quantifying repairs and estimating rehab costs for the projects.#6 Complete Your First Rehab Project It sounds like you are already half way through your first rehab? 

We do have a local meetup that meets in Delray, but have moved to a virtual setting on Zoom as of late.

Just have your offshore virtual assistant call them when you have issues, at $4/hour.I’ve never in my life placed a single call to Airbnb or HomeAway.