@Robert Quinn  Thanks for reaching out and the advice.

Feel free to reach out to me with some questions, I am not a seasoned vet, but have been in the industry for a while with some knowledge.  

I came across BiggerPockets as one of the first resources I encountered when I became interested in real estate investing, starting off with the BP podcast (I've marathoned ~60 episodes in two weeks) and the site itself.I'm excited (and to be honest, a fair bit intimidated) to get started in real estate investing, and I thought I'd reach out to the community to get more involved and accelerate my learning process.  

Typically not until it reaches 5 units does it just go off of cap rates.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions that you think I may be able to answer.

I certainly do not want to spend my life in jail so I wanted to reach out to the pros before making moves.

Thanks for reaching out to me

The great thing was that they all made themselves available to talk with people after their discussions and took the time to answer questions individually and exchanged business cards - this way you can always reach out to them and get more information.

An investor out of my area reached out to me after seeing my AD on Craigs list about wholesaling and bird dogging .

Reach out to people and send personal collegue requests- that's the best way to start networking.