@Albert Brown I would say
1. Make sure your four walls are taken care of. I didn't want to get started until I minimized the risk of having anything hinder paying the bills.
2. My next step was to get debt free (except for my house) we thought this was soo important that my wife and I now help other people do the same.
3. While accomplishing step 2 will help with this. Check on your credit, work to get the score up so you can get better interest rates.
4. In this process, watch BP podcast and others, read books (plenty listed on this site) the first book I would suggest is "The Slight Edge" by Jeff Olson it helps put other books into actionable steps. Stay in the forums, go to meet-ups.
5. Work on adding people who are making positive moves to your circle of influence (the 5 people you spend the most time around) strangely this has worked for me even if its watching them on Youtube! The energy around these people is contagious!
6. Looks at houses online and also go see house, we looked for 8 months before we bought our first house, the agent we stuck with was patient and awesome, analyze them like you would if you were planning to buy them (start doing this at step 1, It can't hurt) the more you pour through the more you start getting an eye for things (Market, neighborhoods etc) BP has an awesome deal analyzer page, find your market, learn it, know it, love it.
7. By this time you should be more able to understand some of the strategies that are discussed on BP. (It helped us ex BRRRR)
8. Get to it!
This is a short breakdown of the things my wife and I have done, and while talking to you it's sort of a refresher for me!
I also am a introvert so I forced myself to volunteer at work to teach training classes and signee up for other projects where I had to talk in front of 60+ people, that helped me tremendously, considering that I would've never had a single post on this site if I hadn't done that.
Good luck out there! Hope this helps.
