Great start to life. 

Look up Michael Blank and apartment investing together and you will find a great resource who is giving a ton of info away from free on how to start in apartments.

BiggerPockets is full of resources designed to help you along your journey, whether you are just getting started or a seasoned investor.

I’m currently looking to invest in Kansas City, starting with a few fix-and-flips and eventually getting into residential development. 

Quote from @Jerryll Noorden: Quote from @Jon LaBorde: I’m a few days away from starting my first marketing campaign and I was wondering if anyone could tell me how many leads I need in order to get a wholesale deal, my first month I’m starting with SMS and cold calling and I’d like to reach about 10,000 people and I’m nervous that I should be trying to reach more.

Focus on absentee owners and start with the ones who live the farthest away and only own one property in the area since they have the least use for the property.You can also drive for dollars, looking for anomalies of disrepair and then look them up in the tax records and use a site like Spokeo to do cheap skip tracing.

Starting a property management company with my brother and my dad was a mix of teamwork, trust, and family dinners doubling as business meetings.

Theres one I think its by Brandon Turner that is called rent to retirement. when I was starting out I read one that was called one property a year that resonated with me.

Since you're looking to expand into Florida and other states, I'd recommend starting by narrowing down your focus:Market Research – Florida has great opportunities, but each state and city has different laws, taxes, and demand drivers.

@Malcolm Brown it is great that you are thinking of the money to fund the deals you are going to get started with but understanding what a deal is, I think, should be the starting point.