New Member in DFW (That's Dallas-Ft Worth, y'all)

[Chloe Thomas]

Hi everyone! My name is Chloe, I am a 23-year-old college grad working in demographics in the DFW area. I got interested in real estate investing about a year ago, started seriously reading articles about a month ago, and finally created a BP account today. I am a complete novice (hope to purchase my first property this summer), so I'll probably be asking a lot more questions than I answer for a while but I hope to be the answer-er one day! Any and all advice is appreciated!

[Chloe Thomas]

Thanks for the welcome! I'm super excited to get started. @Brandon Turner thanks for you contributions. Your site realestateinyourtwenties.com gave me the confidence to think I could really make a go of this. And you also introduced me to BiggerPockets! @Elizabeth Colegrove that's exactly what I want to do, but hopefully with small multifamily properties. I am absolutely susceptible to 'analysis paralysis' but I'll do my best to just go for it (but I'll probably read about 5000 more articles/books in the meantime :P). How difficult is it to manage property while maintaining a full-time job?