Newbie in Twin Cities

[Tim Joyce]

Hi BP, I’m a newly minted attorney working at a smaller firm in Northeast Minneapolis. Looking to deploy some of that work-life balance time to side hustle a REI hobby. Interested in thoughts about best practices to dip my tie in the water. What neighborhoods and/or burbs do you like and why? There any reason I’d want to start with wholesale before getting into buy and hold? Favorite local groups to connect with other REI hustlers? Ways to start funding the numbers that would help me practice crunching them to analyze a potential deal? (For instance, I only know about Zillow and the like for estimating rentals and ARV) Looking forward to tapping into and interacting with this community! Tim

[Andy Saquing]

For estimating rents in an area:  there is rentometer.com but I prefer using Craigslist to estimate what type of rent you can get for an area.  Best of luck on this new venture!