You get fascinated by a topic and decide you want to spend a considerable amount of time exploring it.2.

You can do this, it isn’t rocket science.

. - gauging asset appreciation is more of an art than a science, especially in the current market.

I leveraged Evolve to handle my listings, payments and calendar however and they charge 10% if you want to do a 'hybrid' model...but it's not rocket science and you should be able to do it all yourself.  

It isn't rocket science.

Economics is still half art and half science at this point.I was just in a similar situation with a condo I owned, basically lost money with maintenance costs but had been appreciating like crazy.Sold it and did a 1031 and it covered most of the 25% down payment on a 4 Plex that should cash flow very well after the renovation.I view this a good on all fronts, just plain business sense and if inflation does happen I have way more exposure for it to be an advantage for me by having 4 units with rents that can go up and a larger asset that can appreciate.

I'm currently in Junior College and taking Computer Science as my major, but I plan to go into Real Estate in the future.

It's not rocket science to assume I'll be searching off market or working with local agents following my own criteria.You would be hard pressed to find a decent duplex for $100k in Indy.

@Michael Stobo What a fascinating and creative idea! 

The decent producing Realtors, the ones that sell a fair amount of homes, already know what's up and aren't doing a lot of hands on hips drama routines with pointless threats and all that (top producers never do drama routines anyways, it's a characteristic of being a top producer, and in case someone takes this as gendered commentary because I referenced hips, it is decidedly not gender specific, drama propensity is equal opportunity in this case), but the lower producing realtors are all working on their Ph.D's in Drama Llama Sciences.