Starting Out In Real Estate

[Zachary R Beale]

Hello all,

My wife and I are about to start the next chapter in our lives. She will be finishing up her doctorate and finding a job and I will be finishing up my degree and getting a better paying job (hopefully) in the next 6 months. I've always wanted to get into real estate investing and always leaned towards short term rentals/ vacation rentals. The extra info in regards to me is that I get an extra 4k a month due to my prior service in the military. This money is what we have lived on while we were both in school. It will not go away, and it will not be needed in our daily lives, so I am reaching out here to figure out what would be the best thing to do with the additional income. I don't want it to just sit in a savings account if there is something constructive I can do with it in the meantime.  If anyone has any ideas on what to do or what to look into, I would greatly appreciate it.