ideas for first investment property

[Olga Llaurador]

hello everyone!! my first time here and i have two questions. first, since i am new what path do you recommend i take if i want to start in real estate investment? are there specific couses? classes? books? i would like to buy and rent properties for cash flow. i would like to start off small of course since i'm completley new. 

second question. my husband had an idea that we buy a condo for around 70,000 live in it for about a year and pay it off, then rent it out. to create a cash flow. then we could use that to help us buy our own house(we live in an apartment right now) i on the other hand feel maybe we should buy it and sublease it or something so we don't have to pay it off ourselves. what do you guys suggest for our first investment? 

thank