I'm going to vote continue to eliminate your consumer debt and build your savings for a bit longer. $2500 is nowhere near enough money to have in reserves if you really want to get involved with real estate - it's just a capital-intense game.

The CSLB is VERY pro consumer.

I listened to that one, then another, and another, until I was consumed with the concept of financial freedom through house hacking.

I have always been extremely interested in real estate investing and househacking and consume content almost every day, and saving up for my first househack.Now, I work fulll time HVAC and am a part time Realtor, and was thinking about working specifically with first time home buyers ages 23-30 to show them how to househack on their first property.

In my state it would be the division of consumer affairs, they could bring down a world of trouble if the landlord is acutally breaking any laws with how they have their property. 

Lot’s of great personal finance info/tools from budgeting, the importance of an emergency fund, avoiding consumer debt, insurance, funding college, investment basics, etc.

Start to consume it and build your knowledge base. 

This is not the easy path to get into real estate because it's messy and time consuming.

2) Ever agile marketing strategies: We have a team of dedicated marketing experts diligently monitoring consumer trends with pinpoint specificity and instantly tailoring our programs and messages to those trends. 3) A network of 1100+ investors across the country: We are not alone.

Hello, I have hit some incredibly time consuming hang ups with my original plan of utilizing a 203k to house hack a duplex, refi and use the equity to invest again.