Start with BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginners Guide (free).

.- Once your time is more impotant to you then the cost of a PMC, you can hire one.2) Hire a PMC to guide you on your first rental and learn from their expertise.- You can buy additional properties and DIY manage those, perhaps leaning on the PMC for any issues you're not sure how to handle on your own.Good luck:)

What type of properties are you looking to buy?

We're at the point where we're going to buy an appartment in Dubai. 

Personally when buying rentals I tend to buy in neighborhoods that I feel like I wouldn't personally mind living in and when I look for tenants I try to look for people that not only pass my screening but also I personally don't dislike.  

So if 3 siblings all buy a house together and all live in it when they sell up to $750k can be excluded.If married only one person needs to meet the ownership requirement-but both must meet the use requirement. 

Can you find a way to capitalize on their work even if you don't buy "their deal".

Certain cap items is fixed or pretty close to fixed whether you are buying a $60K house vs. a $500K house in the same market. 

However, co-living allows you to acquire properties with as little as 0%-5% down, drastically reducing the amount of cash required.Instead of needing $100K+ to buy a rental, a co-living strategy lets you start with a fraction of the cost while achieving higher returns.3.

Northern New Jersey has very little land, therefore the price to buy land is too high unless you somehow get it at a great price.