I currently live in Fort Myers, FL so I would love to find ways to find more buyers virtually.

I accelerate slowly that's why I waited until now to say hello, but it is because of his recommendation that I joined.A bit about myself: I have lived in Massachusetts my whole life, I work in Boston as an animator for a research group at Northeastern University.

Zip Codes - the best data for zip codes comes from the US Census http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table  There you can enter a zip code to get a very detailed picture of who lives there, how much money they make etc...Again once you have that data I would do a lot of Google research to see what is happening there.

Then we realized that, rather than using every penny of income to pay off student debt, it makes more sense to buy more multi-family homes.Our goal is to buy one we can live in with our kids for a year, then move to our second one.

I live in a very remote area with no RE club and literally one realtor.

So can I live their for a while then rent both floors out. 

We will not be living in it so commercial, it's in Bangor.Thanks,Joan

And of course I am partial to the group that I help run: https://www.meetup.com/PacificNWRealEstate/The SREII is also pretty awesome.And since you live up in Snohomish there's SNO-CO: https://www.meetup.com/SnoCo-Real-Estate-Investors/events/232596425/

We live in southern California (inland empire area) and feel the home prices are too high here for us to buy rental property.

I've got a property I used to live in for +2 years and then I rented it out.