I'm looking to connect with local investors in and around the Westchester County area. 

For sourcing deals, consider leveraging a mix of strategies including networking with local real estate investors, using online platforms like Bigger-Pockets for community advice, and exploring public records or foreclosure lists for potential off-market properties.

It does depend on the state and locality you are in.  

Think like company like homes or zillow or local exp team that could offer a very efficient buying process thus could offer more attractive buyer commission, especially at expensive home price above 1 mil area, that would impact heavily on heavily-dependant commission based broker. 

That kind of analysis just look at prices without taking into account the buying power of the local buyers, which makes it completely flawed.Short-term rentals haven't been banned per se.

What does your local law say about security deposit returns?

But if they are happy with 5% then it can still be competitive for you to give them that and pay the withholding taxes because most local hard money lenders will charge much more than 7%.

Next, I would go to a local meetup and see if you can connect with other MTR operators for more information.

I also talk to a local rental management company tomorrow to see what their projected rent would be for the property.

I am from North NJ so very expensive locally and not sure what type of investment to get into out of all the options.