Avoid rushing into a distant market without proper research or a trusted team—it’s a recipe for setbacks.

Balance what you are learning through KW on how to be an agent and in the real estate class (much better basis for investors in real life than agents) with going to real estate investor meetups in your area.

I recently went back to school and racked up student loans onto my already high balance.

At this loan balance, good news is you do have options with DSCR loans. 

Gradually transition to larger, higher-end projects as you gain confidence and expertise, balancing risk and reward.

Your bio says "Denver" but that could mean a lot of things and there are significantly different rules on renting out your property whether you're in Arvada, Westminster, Aurora, Denver proper, etc, etc.

It has to be handled in the proper way.

This way, they are no longer on the P&L and are now on the balance sheet as inventory when you run the report for that year.

You have a very good balanced approach to getting started and it's great you are prepping for the future.

It's super competitive here and we have a large flow of off-mkt homes coming our way, so we had to develop tools to speed up acquisitions/underwriting.I built something that allows VA's or very green staff members the ability to properly distinguish opportunity as if they had years of expert experience & local market knowledge.It will run sales comps & estimate ARV for you:And has drilled-down market stats that are actually useful!