I would love to receive advice from people about what to look for and not when crunching the numbers on a potential property.

There are great people here which could guide me in the right direction and I appreciate any advice.

I have recently joined biggerpockets after reading multiple books that recommended me here.Thanks a lot for reading my post and may God bless the reader & people that have taken an effort to provide me with guidance and help here.

If you need to know how to find them, one recommendation is locate people who have bought properties for cash in that area, then cold call them to see if they're looking for more.

And what specific people I should contact before starting.

Short term rentals can work in urban areas too...people travel for many reasons. 

I'm looking to connect with people in the note buying business.

This helps weed out the people who aren't that interested. 

I know of people going with Credit Unions getting significantly lower rates than the rest of the market, but then I know of plenty of lenders claiming that you can’t get that at all.

these people are not real.. why bother ?