Or any other advice for that matter..Thank you guys! 

.### FinancingMake sure you have your financial matters in order.

I’m based in Los Angeles, CA, but the distance didn’t matter at all because she was always responsive, proactive, and kept me in the loop every step of the way.

You get to make smart decisions and avoid costly blunders.Confidence matters here.

You can have the best caller with the best pattern interrupt who is highly skilled but if they are calling a list that has been beaten to death by every call center and all the other investors out there, it won’t matter.

VA (and conventional for that matter) will calculate all the above off your tax returns.

If you do STR, size doesn't matter *as much* as MTR or especially LTR.

I’m based in Los Angeles, CA, but the distance didn’t matter at all because she was always responsive, proactive, and kept me in the loop every step of the way.

Start with house hacking you are in the perfect position to do that and then no matter what you do with REI (even if you hate it and you quit) you'll be better off financially than your peers because you made this decision.

Learn together when you can or leave some links when you find something good so that it is a shared activity.There are so many posts about the metrics of a deal, or the qualities of the asset, but those won't matter if you put your relationship in the middle of your investing trajectory.