Gives me hope there's a high ceiling, not Austin-like but enough upwards momentum to keep me happy.

It's certainly much harder now to cash flow while house hacking with high mortgage rates, but not impossible.

A good option might be a hard money loan for the front end at high leverage (15, 10, or at most 20% down) and then adding value and pulling out equity via a DSCR cash-out refinances qualified with AirDNA projections. 

Most truly individual private money lenders don't love construction for a number of reasons: - Time horizon on these projects is too long and the project itself highly speculative - Most construction loans are non-dutch, meaning you pay only on what funds are released and PMLs don't like having to earmark additional funds that aren't deployed and aren't earning a monthly interest on

The demand is pretty high for Pocono and we only have unique home rentals to stand out from others.

So many new investors that live in high cost of living areas look to the midwest or other cheap areas to invest. 

If you can't keep control of your personal finances, you are highly unlikely to succeed in real estate investing.

If you go through the MLS what you see are a TON of homes with high prices that are not pending sale.  

I find that asking those questions (in bold), I get higher quality/deeper answers.

As far as outcomes... the goal would be to simply make quality connections with people and exchange some form of contact information with those quality connections.