Begin by educating yourself through books like The House Hacking Strategy and podcasts like BiggerPockets, and join online communities for support.

Check out other online guides available here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides3.

Thanks, Haresh I couldn’t find the numbers you mentioned about them online.

In my opinion, an in person meetup > an online connection.You may want to consider making a connection here and meeting up for coffee or attending a real estate networking event.Best of luck!

I attend one in Frederick which is online right now. 

Hi all,I am new to the online community but have been listening to bigger pockets podcasts for years.

Finding them online and completing an application so they can atleast do an initial underwriting will work.here is min. someone will want to see:2.

I was seeing information online that suggested both routes...Thanks in advance for the help!

Quote from @Diana Teng: Hi all,I think my question above is pretty direct.I'm interested to buy my first rental property, and after doing a brief search I see that there are quite a number of places out-of-state (I live in NY state)  that offer affordable homes that deem to be in hot market areas right now (according to many different articles online). 

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