I have never found something that I have wanted to truly and desperately pursue until now and have been absolutely addicted to soaking in as much information as I can.I've been knocking out blogs and forum threads whenever I even have a little bit of extra time and have gone as far as sneaking wireless earbuds under my beanie so that I can listen to 3-4 podcast during my work hours.I've been slowly looking at my local market and analyzing a few deals and always fantasizing about ways of how I could make it work to possibly acquire them at that current moment, but there are some obstacles I need to push through first.I have a balance of a couple grand on some credit cards(no missed payments) that I've been rapidly trying to tackle as this is my first step into opening more possible options of an early purchase even if I may not have a downpayment stocked up.Before, my initial plan was to keep on learning and educating myself with as much information that I could while saving up enough cash in order for me to be ready to house hack a property by the beginning of next year, but as I've started to learn more and more, I can't help but want to get into the process as soon as I can.I'm only 20 so technically I do have a lot of time to prepare, but I still feel as though I'm behind just because of how fast real estate investing is growing and in a time where markets are already hot.Maybe it's just reassurance that I need to hear that "I will be okay" even if I were to join the game a year later.

I justified this because I could tackle this down payment on my own (no investors) and I wasn't relying on the cash-flow to get into the deal.

I’m writing this today to see if any of you all have a game plan or roadmap we should follow to build our capital so that we can tackle better deals.

I used the DR debt snowball to tackle my consumer debt.  

Happy to offer any knowledge you may need about masonry or chimney projects you may be tackling during a flip.

Also, if you get an unwanted caller, you can mark it as spam and the caller will get a "this number has been disconnected" message. 

Is that to get around being flagged as "spam?"

@Jacob Beard I enjoy that you AND your wife tackled this project.

I have replaced many of the runs--largely the copper is at end of useful life, but also I have some electrolysis where an earlier owner hung the copper with a dis-similar metal and there is heavy corrosion.I also insulated all pipes and ventilate well in summer, cover vents for freeze months.And I had the PEX bid, two... but have not tackled it just yet...

Since they all watch to much HGTV they want that on a spam budget and will squeeze your margins to get it.