Try to get some experience by helping your friend with some of his projects.

You don't need to know everything to get started; you need a foundation to build on, and the rest will come through experience and then refining your education.You can build a basic understanding of investing in 3-6 months.

In our experience, things move in ebbs and flows and the speed of rental depends on your asking rents relative to competition.For example, there was a period of several months at one of our properties when a 3 or 4 BR unit came on the market it rented almost instantly. 

I'm always willing to have a conversation to help new investors learn from my experiences, to hopefully avoid the pitfalls of buying your first property. 

it doesn’t really matter.In my experience, cash flow will never make you rich.  

The experience was really bad as I was getting 1-2 year old leads to cold call that I knew had a 0% success rate and I do much better generating leads organically on my own.

Or if they are doing value-added multifamily, they will show you their hotel experience.

Ask how many units they manage and how much experience they have.

They are very different experiences and some like one but not another. 3.

Although I don't have much experience in this field yet, I am passionate about real estate and hope to continuously learn and grow in this industry.