De Sota is in Jonson County KS which is the hotest housing market in the metro.

A block can transition from appreciating to depreciating within ten houses so you have to learn where it is ebbing and flowing.

Since you’re already diving into BiggerPockets, focus on clarifying your investment goals (house hacking, multifamily, or BRRRR), building your network with experienced investors and lenders, and most importantly, taking action by analyzing real deals.

I'm currently in a rent to own house we are moving out of and will be renovating and renting.

House hacking a 4 plex using an FHA loan would be a good way to get in with low money down.

A lot of the advice I am seeing here and other places seems to oriented towards younger newbies - For ex: - house hacking or BRRR - these are not appealing to me. 

I'd research how much the rich people from NYC are paying and see what kind of houses they're staying in.

I've been tracing wholesalers in califonia for months, like nothing other state finding individual wholasalers in califonia is quite challenging I don't know if it's because the house prices are too high compared to other markets.

For example, I live in Gilbert, AZ, which isn't exactly the cheapest place to live, so if I begin to look for a house here in AZ are the lenders going to want to see 300k-400k$ in liquid assets for me to get approval for a mortgage (as the homes in my area are around 800K-1M)? 

Congrats on your first house hack going so well.