I have no prior investment experience but after living in Paraguay, and reading some books about real estate investments, I think I'm ready to buy my first property.

Buy your flips with soft created Paper secured by a flip you’d like to keep.  

Quote from @Eric Gerakos: My wife and I buy many “fractional” notes where we live in California.

Quote from @Jaycee Greene: Quote from @Jeffrey Eschbach: Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

Until you have $1 million or more in equity and really understand how to use an LLC, I recommend you just buy an umbrella insurance policy for $1 million.

BiggerPockets also has a calculator to analyze deals, and I highly recommend you start this as soon as possible, even if you are not ready to buy.

I’m not planning on buying until 2026 so where do you go for real estate news and market trends?  

I'm in the same boat for reference- I bought into the "buy now, refi later" idea and am sitting on a 7.375% on my latest property acquisition and a commercial line of credit I have is at prime + 1 (so 8.5%).

Many groups buy cash flow negative deals and overraise to pay distributions right away. 

But yes long term I am interested in buy and hold single and multifamily.