I would set appointments with local investor/agents who are tapping the market you want to serve (just look at closed multi-family listings and see who sold them), and keep doing that until you find a person who stands to mutually benefit from coaching/mentoring you and expect to pay them a split to work alongside them until you're prepared enough to go on your own. 

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My suggestion is to give them an offer that meets their needs before someone else does.

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Any suggestions?

If they are not going away any time soon, you can suggest if they can stay with friends/family and you can either give them some money or restaurant gift cards as a thank you/sorry for the inconvenience to keep them happy. 

I have to dig up the list of neighborhoods that I suggest looking into. 

In WA you can get new construction, but that is far away that I don't expect Seattle/Bellevue tech workers to live there.My boss suggested Pittsburgh (emerging tech hub), my coworker is based out of Atlanta which seems to still have affordable houses and seems to have lots of tech jobs.