Newbie from Salt Lake City, Utah

[Jared McNeel]

Hello everyone! My name is Jared McNeel and I am a healthcare professional and newbie investor from Salt Lake City, Utah. I have a degree in business and finance, work full-time, and have a dad who is a general contractor. 

I have joined Bigger Pockets to associate and network with others who share a common interest in RE investing and would like to network with as many investors/private lenders as possible. Since I am very new I have a lot of questions that hopefully others in the BP community might be able to answer. 

My current/primary goal(s):

I am acquiring my first property in mid November through a traditional lender and am trying to better understand how to use this property as rental income (through placing tenents) and to then keep building up a rental portfolio one house at a time. Basically, I would like find out how to go from one property to two and then have the trend continue. How would I be able to purchase another property financially with a lender if I already have debt from my first property?

SInce my first deal was purchased through family I did not need a realtor and would like to meet one here on Bigger Pockets in my area who could send me leads and alerts for possible future deals. 

Thanks in advance everyone!