Commercial vs Residential

[Jaime Aguilar]

Hello BP community. I am currently getting my real estate license in TX and have been set on starting out as a residential agent. On the investing side my wife and I have the intention to purchase our first investment property, a small multi-family 2-4 units. I have been learning more about the commercial end of real estate. I do acknowledge that there are different way of doing things, and the barrier of entry may be different specially as an investor/agent starting out. Anyone suggest if I should learn the residential side as an agent and then transition into doing commercial deals as well. Or should I go straight into commercial? 

My second question for the community is on the investing side of things. Should I try to save some more $ up and invest in larger multi-family deals, or should I start with our original plan of investing in a 2-4 unit multi-family. Any recommendations, experiences, advice would help!!