Starting Out - Completely New to All Things Real Estate

[Brady Heath]

These are some of the first steps I'm taking to dip my feet into the waters of real estate investing education. I'm interested in buying a house, being a landlord and renting property to a tenet. I have no experience at the moment. My partner and I are both interested in educating ourselves about real estate and taking action together towards potentially owning a house that we can rent out to start out. I have no idea if this is a good starting point or not. What would be helpful for me to know, research, investigate for myself, and have a good understanding of in order to gain more clarity around owning/buying a house. We have potential buying support that we can leverage to buy a house/mortgage, but we don't know anything about being landlords, renting out the property, etc. Our goal is financial independence and this being a stepping stone towards understanding more of how to do create that for ourselves. Any guidance would be amazing. Our time line looks like this, FYI: 

We want to move out of our current place and do one of the following by August/September 2023: Buy a house, find individuals to rent it out to, live there for way cheaper, and save money while going through the process of learning what it takes to land lord and rent a property to tenants. OR, move out of our current place and rent for the next year until we gain some momentum together and then consider this plan/or something similar in one year. 

Thank you for any support you can offer.