Suggestions like driving by the houses weekly are silly, such trips serve no legitimate business purpose. 

House hacking and multi-family properties are great ways to start in real estate!

A contractor left a back door open one day and someone walked into the house and stole $2000 worth of tools.

I have a seller who wants to sell a house that is worth roughly $830K. 

I had a client use one for their house hack in salt lake city area and it worked out well!

@Derick Jennings Without knowing more about your situation, I'd likely recommend a house hack, a strategy I wish I would have known about when I got started.

Your realtor will be able to give you a much more detailed market specific answer but with house hacking and a VA loan it should be possible to get 0 out of pocket.

Try looking into cities in with stable economies, strong renter populations, and where housing is below the US median value.

Im also interested in starting to invest in housing whether that be flipping, BRRR, etcMy wife, 54, is newly positioned social worker and climbing to what she feels is her max with clients.

Perhaps you have coverage for the replacement value BUT the insurance company when calculating the replacement property uses modern building materials like drywall but your original house had plaster which is much more expensive.