Nine month into my low paying job in a new city, I had no savings.

As you'd expect these giys are super busy an d you can't get a quote frpm them to save your life unless you said the magic words;  "I'm desparate and will pay 2x the actual costs today for you to take this job".   

Quote from @Jackie Liu: I think you're doing a great job! 

Reading up on local job growth or population trends can also give you a good idea of how the market is doing.

And you learned that in college, which cost you $50,000 - $100,000 which helped you get a job making $50,000 to $100,000 a year after 4 years.  

They’re great and have about 50 employees... plenty of fire power to handle multiple jobs

Because September jobs growth was a lot stronger, and September inflation (CPI) was a bit hotter than expected.CPI came in a bit hot.

I would like to have an active earning real estate job so that I can fund buying rental properties.

Its time where i want to start my journey into real estate, now my father is more than willing to pass me the torch because he is also working a full time job.

This is very market dependent  also dependent on jobs and avaliable land to build etc.