Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

There are plenty of ways to do this.  

There are certainly some things to learn along the way, but you'll figure it out as you go just like we all do.There are plenty of folks here that would be happy to help for free - including me.

Tacoma has a growing real estate community, and there are plenty of opportunities to connect with investors.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

Don't change jobs or income yet.Once you do and you think you can manage the payments based on your new income, maybe once you get the rooms rented.Then if you want to switch there are plenty of opportunities. 

LoopNet will have on market deals.That being said, I’ve seen plenty of awful off market deals and plenty of solid on market deals.

As a retired CPA, I saw plenty of tax returns by these firms that clearly were done poorly. 

$100,000 is the default, and it's plenty.

Plenty of great opportunity here.