Complete newbie here looking to learn

[Hai Nguyen]

Hello everyone, As the title said, I’m completely new to investing in real estate. I’ve been reading the forum and the responses and I have to say, you guys are very knowledgeable and very helpful. Please, as a complete newbie, what can you intelligent folks recommend as far as where to begin. Books, websites or anything to help me learn and get started. I want to be able to buy a property in ONE year. I’ve been reading up on it but when I found BiggerPockets, I feel like there’s so much that I don’t know. I live in Philadelphia and would greatly appreciate any advice. Thank you in advance to everyone that’s taking the time out of their busy schedule to help me.

[Garrett Sowle]

@Hai Nguyen, I would check out the Bigger pockets Ultimate Beginners Guide under education- guides. This will help you understand the basics of real estate investing. A couple books that can help you get are in the proper mindset are rich dad poor dad and richest man in Babylon. There are some advantages of being an owner occupant. Here's a good BP post about it (How to "hack" your housing and get paid to live for free) https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/11/02/hack-housing-get-paid-live-free/. I think house hacking is a great way to get started investing and you could probably get started sooner than you think with some of the low down payment programs available today.