What else can I be doing?

[Kyle Curtin]

Hi everyone! I just wanted to see if anyone had any advice for learning more real estate investing more efficiently.

A little backround:

I am 19 and do HVAC as my 40hr/ wk full time job and am a licensed Realtor on the side. I decided I want to work in the investment property side of the industry, as that is why I wanted to jump in the first place. I have only been with a brokerage since October of 2019 and have not had any sales, but also have not been doing very much with it.

I have decided that my first property will be a duplex roughly around my area that I will certainly house hack.

I am really trying to learn this industry and I listen to the BiggerPockets podcast everyday to and from work, read the bigger pockets books/ and am starting to look at properties and figuring out how to analyze them.

I also have recently started going to meetups in my area once in a while in hopes of meeting people who have many cashflowing properties and/ financially free ect.

I just opened a credit card today and have no credit at all, so it may be a while before I could get a loan for the duplex. :(

Is there anything else that I can be doing while saving up for a down payment and learning?

Thank you,

Kyle