Newbie investor from Norway

[Jon Åge Stakvik]

Hi everyone! 

I'm Jon from Porsgrunn, a small city in south of Norway. I'm 28 years old and I've never done a real estate investment. I'm now looking more and more into RE investing. 

My motivation for real estate investing is to find an investment that will beat the stock market while being a learning experience that will bring me closer to FI. The last years I've closely tracked my local area for deals and I'm now broadening my search to further away. 

My two greatest challenges to start this journey seems to be to first convince my wife to support the idea and second to dear to do the first investment. 

Right now I'm studying single family homes to rent out by the room for students. However, it feels like a dounting task to go from no experience to suddenly managing a house with up to ten units 5 hours away from home. I'd been very glad to hear someone else's experiences on this. 

Glad to finally be part of the forum after being a passive member for three months. 

Jon