Broaden your area-maybe 45 mins max-or a tad more.

You could find yourself diversifying your real estate portfolio to include commercial properties or fix-and-flip chances.Buying a commercial property will broaden and diversify your real estate portfolio and experience.

Maybe you should broaden your search criteria?

I am attempting to broaden my network with hopes of connecting locally. 

If you're purely focused on duplexes I would broaden your search to Garner, Knightdale, Durham, Zebulon etc.

This will depend on what type of experience you are looking for...working as a realtor will broaden your investor network and also will show you the process of buying/selling.

Free info, mostly quality --I would also recommend some others such as Big Picture Retirement for broadening your horizons.

It includes busy people that need flexible rental terms as well.Now that I've broaden my definition of "special needs" I can see a lot more opportunities.

What most forget about JV's due to their focus on raising capital, flexibility, or broadening your investment horizon is that it is a partnership and if you think Real Estate investing my be stressful at times throw a few inexperienced partners in along with money they are looking at and having to work together as well as manage emotions and you have a perfect storm.The point I am trying to make is the successful JV's I see are comprised of experienced investors who have opened their financials to each other, as well as background checks or any other verification of finances and more importantly character to have a comfort level with one another.

I also intend on getting licensed which will let me dive deeper in the real estate relm and broaden my scope of reach.