Whether your at $0 or $10mm of personal cash to start with.   

@Chloe Salcedoi'd start with a house hack.

It is awesome that you are getting started early in your career. $220,000 is definitely a lower purchase price amount and really limits you on what you can buy.

Have you already started connecting with any local professionals, or are you still searching?

When it’s sold I’ll post the entire journey start to finish with numbers.

I'd start with picking one city and spending a lot of your time to do a deep dive building relationships and learning different areas.

It's pretty easy to see that real estate proces peaked around 2007-2008 and then crashed during the Great Recession.Around 2011-2012 prices started to recover and got back to their pre-Crash highs around 2015-2016, but really 2018-2019 when adjusted.So, why are newbies reading books written BEFORE 2019 and thinking that you can still successfully invest using the EXACT advice in these relatively "old" books?

I've seen plumbers and builders stop hiring because all the "young" people start the job and then don't put in any effort or stop showing up.Figure out what you want to make hourly, then start telling everyone and their brother that you need work, how many hours you are available, etc. 

These start failing after 50+ years, causing lots of backups and problems.

If you are just getting started here in Chicago, house hacking is the ideal situation.