If you want to get into the investing game you may want to start by hitting some auctions, and putting some miles on your vehicle.

On a side note, we never sign a lease with a new tenant until a property is vacant for precisely this reason.

Recently, I started a meet up specifically geared towards empowering people of color to use Real Estate as a vehicle to build generational wealth. 

Put in man hours clearing the property in the process of putting in a second culvert for vehicle access to a section separated by a creek

I have a small GC company with a few vehicles, 4-6 full time contractors and a few subcontractors, but when we are pricing contracting work and I have to factor in travel time and gas costs, it adds up a lot more than it did last year.

Still have plenty of room on the 50% vehicle to income ratio. 

I do think it is very much like buying a vehicle before closing on a mortgage. 

You will be fine and you will crush it as long as you don't graduate and go buy a brand new vehicle and take on other bad debt just cause you can.Note: This is all the advice I would give myself if I could go back 15+ years and talk to myself in college. 

What is the vehicle count on the road out front?  

We are all at different points of life with the same goal to increase income but the vehicle for some will be a better fit for others and vice versa.