Hang out with others that are doing what you want to do and invest your $25-$50,000 in real estate vs education. 

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If so they may have a real estate license or they may work with an agent that relies on repeat business rather than a one-off purchase. 

Quote from @Palak Patel: Hi everyone,I am new to the rental business and just purchased my first rental property.

I own a mortgage company, so I have my loan officers use this Fannie Mae income calculation tool for all business for self borrowers: https://singlefamily.fanniemae.com/applications-technology/income-calculator .

Good luck with your real estate investing journey.

This is really going to depend on the state you are looking to do business in.

Which could be an open space Medical Equipment rental business, down to a Dentist's office with multiple room utility hookups.You're going have to vet this to a lower level of discussion anyways. 

In my case, I have residential rentals in one LLC, commercial properties in another, self-storage in a third, and my real estate company operates in a fourth.

When my business partner and I were still flipping we bought a couple through Auction.com and we always used a private money lender to fund those and our other flips.