Search rental properties on zillow,Save the search to receive daily email alert.Save any rental properties by click the Heart icon.Do this for a few weeks, then review your saved properties,if most of them off market already, then you have a local demand.

I have used 401k loans to purchase three properties and would do so again in a heart beat if I were able, but our 401k administrator recently put a limit in loans by requiring the loans be 5 years apart, which disappoints me.

Your first round of advice is free but at some point whatever point that maybe there aren’t mother Teresa’s in this forum helping everyone out of the goodness of their hearts.

My mind is telling me play it safe and go with a stabilize job security, but my heart is telling me a much more greater opportunity and doors will open if I pursue a career as a real estate agent to have more options and advantages to networking with others. 

We have bright spots like the tax increment district called "Montana Connections" out by Rocker that is constantly growing, Northwestern Energy's beautiful new building in the heart of Uptown, and the ever increasing enrollment at MT Tech.

You should know all your state landlord tenant regulations by heart and not be questioning what can or can not be done.

Yah, when I read the first contract and saw that I would have to still pay them if terminated, my heart kind of dropped.

I’m new to the game but I’m eager and ready to pour my heart into it.

This isn't for apartments, and would not be for the faint of heart, but MAYBE (I wouldn't personally) taking out a high credit limit, 0% intro APR credit card with 0% interest on cash advances, to invest in a flip (but as a passive investor) could be a way to start making money in real estate, passively, while using your good credit. 

That said, as an experienced flipper who heavily relied upon a network of wholesalers I can whole heartedly endorse this approach of an equilibrium in buyers to deals, NOT the "let's blast each deal to the entire universe", which is no kind of relation, it's an annoyance, one that has us flippers looking for a replacement wholesaler in like kind.