Trust the process and get creative to find deals, i.e. driving for dollars, reaching out to ppl on CraigsList, networking, chatting w/ agents, etc.

There are TONS of places out there in need of creative flippers. 

I'm almost at the point of replacing all of my W2 income with my rental income from house hacking a little more creatively (using rent by room to increase the returns).Since you are a recent college grad and going to grad school, I imagine that you are used to living with roommates, so the strategy that has worked for me and other house hackers in Denver is buying a large single family in Denver metro (basically anywhere within 20 min of downtown Denver between 400-500k), and living in the smallest room and then renting out the other rooms.

It is best practice to incorporate repairs into your underwriting.4.

Looking to get into Creative Financing and BRRR deals in the country. 

I will say this though...if you can get a duplex or triplex up there, you can incorporate long term for  one or two of the units, while leaving one unit as a short term or personal use.

I'm dabbling with the idea of creative financing investing, wholesaling or rent-to-own opportunities but was hoping to build some industry relationships first.

Learned invaluable skills on creative disposition and more effective negotiation skills on acquisition.

I had to do some pretty creative financing on it.

I’ve been putting in offers ready to get my feet wet but it’s been frustrating but either I need to get more creative or wait.