In 1-2 years you could save enough to purchase a home to house hack.

If you are not finding good deals money wont find you.If you earn a decent wage and are credit worthy you can start investing by house hacking a multi family with a low down payment mortgage.If you have no money or credit your best best is start finding deals and bringing them to other investors who have money.

@Christin Dorfling can you start with a house hack?

Live under your means and start thinking about investing in Real Estate.In your position the thought of finding a duplex to house hack, live in one side and rent the other. 

Investment Info:

Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $990,000

Cash invested: $350,000

Purchased this home with my former partner back in 2018 and we put 200k dow...

A couple strategies that could make sense for a younger person without experience could be a live-in flip or a house hack.

I got started by moving from Portland OR to Columbus Ohio and started full time real estate investing here and started with house hacking/multifamily as well. 

Hey guys I'm looking to buy a 2nd property in the L.A area and I want to know what the better strategy would be: 1. sell my primary residence and buy a duplex so I can do a house hack OR 2. do a cash out refinance to house hack for said duplex.

Books related to "house hacking" will have information pertinent to what you are looking for. 

Are you leaning toward a specific strategy like buy-and-holds, flips, or house hacking?