Sounds like a rubber ramp might be best, although the ramps I'm seeing while browsing seem only to be wide enough for a doorway, so I'd have to get 2 or 3.

I live in a nicer area of the town and my funds wouldn't allow me to invest here, so I started browsing through the more affordable areas.

I've been browsing the boards here in addition to reading many articles trying to learn as much as I can.

Browse the posts, articles blogs etc on this site.

I built a tool that aggregates all this data in way that is simple to browse.  

Zillow is always a good place to browse.

I have no doubt you should be able to find all of these things here.A good start is the Beginners Guide to Real Estate Investing. https://www.biggerpockets.com/real-estate-investin...This will also help you decide which avenue of real estate investing you may want to pursue; flipping, buy and hold, etc.Search and browse the community, education, marketplace and tools bars on top of the site to see what information is available.Setting up keyword alerts can help let you know if someone is talking about a particular topic in a forum.The combination of using this site, connecting with others and using the internet as a whole will help you with your real estate investment aspirations.

Buy whichever ones they have that actually look interesting (I believe in supporting brick and mortar bookstores, because I love browsing in them.)

Because I'm new at this, I don't yet have a lot of contacts, so I've been browsing the MLS looking for properties that could fit my criteria.

Hii was just browsing the BiggerPockets PERKS section and saw several"use your 401k to buy real estate /investingmaybe that will help!