Otherwise dive into the education piece while living in the city and continue to save up money.

Oh wow thanks @Mark Pedroza I feel like this was the one piece of the wholesale puzzle I needed.

Many of the hunting apps like landglide or huntstand, etc. will tell you the owner and usually a mailing address.  

Send it by certified and regular mail and/or post it on the door in an envelope. 

I'm hoping to start going to some meetups but live about an hour away from where the meetups I'm finding are and just need to commit my time to get there.We are also going to try and start direct mailing absentee owners in the next month with the hopes of getting our first deal under our belts.I'd love to start connecting with people so reach out and say Hi!

@Allen Phelps you should be able to just look up the property tax record and find the owner and the address that the tax bills are mailed to.

We bought the house directly from the owners from a direct mail letter we sent.

(Being human, I’m just as likely to be wrong on predictions and timing as most other people of course.)So I think you should definitely just focus on what’s best for your own situation and “get a piece on the board” with a house hack if the numbers are acceptable to you, and then reevaluate where the market is, and you are, after that.

Owners have been instructed by the current treasurer to mail their checks or bring them to us to deposit.

I have also been lucky enough to have been working with a real estate firm here in DFW that focuses primarily on due diligence of Freddie Mac multifamily securitizations for B-Piece buyers, so I've been able to hone my multifamily due diligence and underwriting skills in this field for the past 2 years on top of our self-education.At this time, we're focused on acquiring a duplex/triplex in the DFW metroplex (focused in the Irving/Las Colinas, Coppell, Carrollton/Farmers Branch, Richardson and Trinity Groves/Medical District areas in Dallas, as well as some of the surrounding submarkets on a deal-by-deal basis), with the plan to house-hack.