Learn of course, but many of us have purchased properties throughout our career without "iron clad" veils and have done just fine.  

Though I would caution you on hard money lending until you understand the industry a bit better, that can be very rewarding but you have to be able to do your due diligence on deals because you're turning over your hard-earned money to an individuals project, often a flip. 

While that would be nice to build up a lot of money and save, however that would just push me back even further from starting my real estate future plans, careers, family, etc.

Unfortunately, I learned the hard way that it wasn’t the best investment (actually the worst I've done in my short investing career).

The absolute best way to avoid taxes is not earn income.  

I moved many times during my Navy career to markets all over the US and even Toronto.

I give you kudos for thinking about this early on in your investing career.

They choose to because we earned it.

Larger brokerages sometimes are in need of administrative work, which could earn you a steady income while also getting exposure to the field. 

Stocks will go down based on missed earnings reports and Elon will just announce some new shiny object that is “coming soon” to pump the stocks.