There are TONS of real estate meet ups you can attend monthly.

I see it time and time where a borrower tries to save on points, they go direct and end up falling out.

Welcome to the community and be ready for a huge amount of information at your finger tips.

@Sean Grabow you can look up @Josh Caldwell from the Pittsburgh Reia group.

The mortgage will be 1.2M if I decide to rent or I could sell the older home and bring the mortgage down on the new home.Consider the situation, interest rates and the market, what makes more sense?

Welcome to the BP Community!

The forums are great but tax pros here don't know all the ins and outs of your specific situation so it's hard to give definitive answers.Do the house hack though!

New London, CT is by no means a huge city and I am very hesitant to even consider buying real estate around here but the one thing that really keeps me coming back to it is my employer.

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

Plan to rent the property by the month, targeting traveling nurse/Dr.