In the meantime, browse and run numbers on properties for practice.

I've been browsing the forums for an hour a day and everyone here seems to be extremely helpful and successful!

If you haven't browsed through FilePlace yet -- Do so. 

I recommend starting to significantly deepen your knowledge base by watching/listening to podcasts, reading books, and browsing the forums. 

Currently I am just browsing Redfin.

I discovered Bigger Pockets through listening to a couple of podcast episodes and now am starting to browse the forums to get a better understanding of how I can start to branch out into more real estate investing.

I've browsed through the MLS, and from what I've seen houses tend to stay on the market their for a lot longer (not really a sellers market like in the triangle). 

I think Zillow is a fun place to browse for dream properties or to get a feeling for what it's like to live in another place.

Sadly I don’t have many contacts in real estate, so everything I have learned so far is from books and the pod casts and few of the forums I’ve browsed on bigger pockets.

In my daily browse of real estate sites I noticed this. https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/...It appears to be a converted barn or a house that looks like a barn for $80k on 3/4 acre.