Hey there @Natalie Hernandez - Welcome to BiggerPockets and kudos to you for posting here about where you are at on your journey! 

Most of the savvy investors we're working with, even through we'll lend more that this, are coming in at 30% to 35% down.

On the journey, I once sold properties that were 30 minutes away as being too far, and also managed some properties that were 200 miles away. 

I am assuming by your post that you are financially invested and own the property. 

@Tim RogersI believe there are income limits that if you exceed specific income (cannot remember the number) it greatly reduces or zeroes out any deductions from a REPPeople a lot smarter than me can confirm

Hey ChrisAI and Machine Learning are increasingly useful in real estate for various tasks.

The best strategy is to not quit your day job until you've built a portfolio big enough meet your income requirements.You have three potential paths.  1) Build an active investing business, something that takes time.

Past trade measures show that such tariffs have raised construction costs by about 5–10% in affected regions.

It's a local investor meetup that meets on the first Tuesday of every month.

All good reading and listening, education is best and if you want to learn you have to ingest as much information as possible.I read many books that helped me, but my go-to is listeining to at least 2hrs of podcast with real examples per day.One very important things that "want-to-be" fails is to understand that real estate has many different specialities, so you have to focus your time in your real project.