You can try to attend virtual events, many real estate meetups and events offer virtual options.

.: Its typical for real estate investors to hire a private home/building inspectors to inspect a real estate property before they buy it.

Hello Trying to get back on the real estate investing space and build new connections that can help me to speed up the process.

Then you can buy a few books if you want but most of the information is here.There are thousands of people here who have shared libraries worth of information for free.You can get a phd in real estate right here if you read all the forums.

Contact the real estate division for confirmation: https://idfpr.illinois.gov/dre.html 

House hacking is often promoted as the easiest way to get into real estate—buy a property, rent out part of it, and let tenants cover your mortgage.

Hi @Dylan Fraembs and welcome to Bigger Pockets and real estate investing!

As a seasoned real estate agent and investor across Indiana and Florida, your expertise is impressive!

A duplex is a great way to start because that renter will help with your monthly out of pocket costs and it's a convenient way to get into real estate investing.

But we also do occasional drive-byes and annual inspections to see how the tenants are caring for it and hopefully catch anything that is potentially damaging before it gets real bad.Some of our clients prefer to pay for the lawn care and we charge a lawn care fee to the tenants.