I started a free demo yesterday.  

You start by mentioning your age... you'd need everything to go just right for the rest of your life to make, best case, $400 or less additional each month net cash flow. 

After 20 years as an investor, broker, and lender, I can tell you that house hacking is one of the smartest ways to start.

Those are spray and pray techniques that don't fit with sellers right now because sellers/owners are sitting on a very low rate and don't want to move to go up 4-5 points on their rate.Listings aren't a start now thing as well.

It sounds like you are off to a great start already especially by educating yourself! 

Here in TN we issue POQ within a couple of days of rent being overdue, usually giving them 14 days to correct before official eviction proceedings start.

If you just hire the cheapest or first PMC you speak with and it turns into a bad experience, please don’t assume ALL PMC’s are bad and start trashing PMC’s in general.

Do you have an idea of your strategy for getting started?

He feels very confident distributions would start before the end of the year.

And with much more in commonality with starting and running say a restaurant.