Jersey City heights has gotten quite expensive in my opinion and, as a result, there may be fewer good deals, but you're surrounded by a lot of pretty attractive areas to start investing in: deeper into Jersey City, Union City, North Bergen, and basically the rest of Hudson County.

Please take the time to keep reading and learning before diving in.

This means the investment is open again to new investors and I still rate it a 4.I also took another deep dive into the the Mara Poling Fund that was listed on Real Crowd.  

Flipping houses, rentals, house hacking, etc.I am eager and motivated to dive into REI, but am currently being held back by a few factors.

You'll have zero control over who is in the house and will have someone with deeper pockets than you for legal purposes if you end up in a disagreement. 

Hope you'll dive into the forums and listen to the podcasts - they're a wealth of information.

Prayerfully this helps and gives you deeper insight in to how to utilize any line of credit so that your money works harder for you and not the other way around.Happy Investing...

Some people do only see things right and wrong or black and white, while others can see things in a deeper way.

The prediction, based on past RE cycles, was a dip in late 2017/early 2018, with a deeper recession coming around 2022.

As you said, I'll be talking to brokerages to see what feels the best and then diving in.