Condos as investment properties

[Martin Sterling]

Greetings all. I'm extremely new to real estate investing and wanted to start out as small and safe as possible. I wanted know the communities thoughts on buying condos and renting them out as a strategy? Also, I wanted to know about buying condos in foreclosure.

Are these sound strategies?

What are some pitfalls to be aware of?

What are the best resource to research this strategy?

Thanks