Start with BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginners Guide (free).

As a beginner investor based in the Seattle metro area, I'm eager to learn from your experiences and share my journey as I get started in this field.My current strategy is to focus on live-and-flip for the first three deals (looking for my second deal) to gain hands-on experience while building equity and learning the ins and outs of renovation and the local market. 

Quote from @Martin Jones: YouTube gurus will tell you to borrow money from someone else, but that's bad advice for a beginner.

Hi! Just starting out and testing waters for BRRR in Chicagoland area.Any advice or suggestions regarding this?Is Chicagoland a lucrative area for it? Any city or area anyone has had success in recently?TIA

I'm not a beginning investor but my previous properties were acquired pre-2013 but I've made beginner mistakes trying to grow buying "cash flow on paper" Class C properties in 2023. 

I would encourage you to read this beginners guide from BiggerPockets, it's a good bit of information so pick and choose what you want to read or read it all.

I recommend starting with turnkey multifamily 2-4 units if you're a beginner.

I am trying to find real estate meetups for beginners here in the DFW area but don't know if I'm looking in the wrong places. 

Do you have any beginner tips for someone attending judicial tax sale which is supposed to be "free and clear" of liens?

BiggerPockets has great books and podcasts for beginners.