Feel free to reach out, and we can grab some coffee (or hop on a zoom call!).

Also, any other nearby towns on the train line, no longer than 40 min commute to NYC, I can consider?

If anyone knows any networking events, or are interested in meeting, coffees on me!  

have one come out to the garage and give you a cost guess-timate.3. check out Rentometer.com for nearby rents. 

Fast forward, following a m/v accident with physical therapy and temporarily moving out to stay at nearby ground floor level house with family I thought I was ok and returned home.

There are a lot of things that can and will go wrong, if you are nearby you can catch and correct problems early.

You are best served by deciding on an area you want to invest first - sometimes nearby like Westchester or Northern NJ, or an old hometown, or where you went to college so you have some advanced knowledge of the place - and then from there, you work on finding an investor-friendly agent, which is not easy, but easier on here.

Are there other townhouses nearby within that gated community?

I would love to buy nearby, but I have about 30K to work with, so the local market in coastal California is out of reach. 

:-) Our initial plan is to self manage since we are located nearby.