Personally I'm a big fan of books like The Millionaire Next Door for teens. 

Foreclosure isn’t sexy.

There was a building boom in Long Beach, CA in 19-teens- 1920's. 

Hello, I'm a 16 year old currently living in the Chicagoland suburbs. I'm very ambitious about real estate, and I'm looking to connect with people that share my interests. I'm here to learn something and to also provi...

There are a lot of sexy terms people throw around when they talk about real estate investors, but in the end success comes down to two simple things:  grit & character. 

Many do it and fail but you don't hear it as much on here because it is not sexy to talk about failures of OOS investing, it is only sexy to talk about how many hundreds of doors you add to the portfolio.

Real estate, invested well, will generate returns in the high teens to low twenty percent range on leveraged transactions in my experience.  

It's hard to gauge without rough location, tenant history, capex needed, etc. but I'd say somewhere around that $1M range assuming a low teens CAP after all negotiations.

How can I a young teen turning (18) get into the real estate market other than learn online...when can I get in touch with real estate investors who can be a great help for me at at a young start?

I could tell the homeowner that I work with investors and that they need to sign a contract with me if they want to use those investors, but that's not quite as sexy as saying that I can close quickly with cash.