Possible Real estate investing partner

[Joe Capobianco]

A friend of mine and I have common investing goals and would like to partner up and invest together. He has experience In running a business which is what he’s doing now and I’m a skilled tradesman. We both want to step away from our jobs and ramp up our rental portofilios. I have a single family rental right now and he rents out the other half of his duplex. Since our first purchases and got our feet wet we wanted to 10x this together to hopefully get away from our full time jobs.

We are meeting Sunday to talk more about what we should do before looking at properties together.

I’m looking for advice from the BiggerPockets community to see what actions we should take before looking at projects to get into and also what advice would u give two newbies starting a real estate venture together?