It is a great way to get started in real estate investing all while buying yourself your own home.

With that, I want to ensure that my approach to real estate is starting with the niche that generates faster returns from the beginning) as a rough example:I can buy Focal Utopia headphones for 8K or I can buy headphones from kmart for $25.

@Zoe BrennanStarting to invest in real estate is a great idea. 

Any advice or recommendations for funding, mentoring, partners, real estate brokers or attorneys would be most appreciated. 

I only recently became licensed, so I would have a long way to go in order to comply with the 2-year experience requirement, but I have been an active investor for 5 years so I am wondering if I would fall within the 3 year exemption, below:- Have at least two years of experience as a licensed real estate salesperson or at least three years of experience in the general real estate field or a combination of both- Meet the minimum points required for the experience type (e.g., buying and selling your own property, managing property owned by your employer)Thanks in advance! 

I have lived and worked real estate in both Fayetteville and Phoenix currently in Mesa.They are both great but the strategy is a little different.

In Real Estate, TIME IS MONEY.Getting a rehab loan done quickly is worth paying an extra few points in order to be efficient as you will be able to expand your BRR business which would yield results greater than the increased cost of capital that hard money brings.In order to escape a scarcity mindset you need to understand that money is in theory unlimited, they print it.But can you print time?

So I've been wanting too go out a network with investors and loaners/lenders but I don't know if their is any events that is real estate and commercial real estate investing based events in DC, does anyone know any events in the DMV that is good too join?

All real estate activities you engage in ad a licensee are subject to your broker supervision, and fall under the regulatory rules of your state's real estate commission or department of licensure.

That's most likely going to be a C- neighborhood or lower so there could be more perceived scale to BRRRR, but a tougher decision on how to renovate at that price point and possibly harder tenancies.I would get to real estate investor meetups in your area.