Ultimately, the decision to purchase now or wait depends on your financial goals, risk tolerance, and the specific opportunities you’re considering and every situation is unique, so what works for one person may not be the best for another.

Attending local real estate meetups can be a great place to find other investors as well and get more market specific advice!

The only benefit in this instance, as an investment partner in a JV, or member in a multi-member LLC, is it's an act of "good faith" on my part in the agreement, being extremely transparent about the project's costs for the construction company, and the specific amount the partner/member invoices as profit or salary attributed to construction services on the specific project (I differentiate profit from salary, as it depends on the size of your construction company, a smaller company the profit may be the salary etc). 

I understand how to get to an ARV, account for repair costs, the hard/soft cost of financing, and so on.What advise would someone give in locking up deals?

They can help guide you in specific local markets.

I've been saving up for my first property purchase, specifically aiming for a duplex.

That is a pretty loaded question and depends more on the host and the specific property in question. 

Same intel that pointed me to saying rates will be at the lowest in any 18-24 months span during Q1 '23 back in Q4 22 when things were getting murdered, and clearly lots were advised that as we saw some aggressive Q1 '23 folks in REI.This is incredibly hard to pick and in my opinion the best solution is still to be quite conservative, but not stop investing.

Can anyone advise on how the market is doing with land for sale? 

If we didn't change culture Rosa Parks would still be stuck on the back of the bus. ya know digging back into my memory ( which becomes harder and harder these days) I recall there is a specific listing term..