I am very blessed by stumbling upon the short sale and the help of my mentorDoes anyone have any advice for me?

Hello everyone, stumbled across this forum after reading Brandon Turner's book, "the book on Rental Property Investing".

We stumbled around for awhile with college, etc and then I found real estate by accident.

I recently stumbled upon Portland, Maine.

I'm very new to realestate investing and stumbled across BP in my search for quality education.

My name is Grant, and within the last few weeks I stumbled upon and joined this awesome community while doing some research.

Hi my name is jeremySo recently ive stumbled across bigger pockets and am trying to learn how to get started in the real estate investing world Its always been a passion and dream to do this even as a kid but i didnt think it was possible without large amounts of capital i see now that there are other ways tho i am not fully aware and understanding themSo let me start with an introduction hi im jeremy, im a plumbers apprentice and actively saving , currently i live at home after moving back when the whole rent and live with roommates thing didnt work and i felt like i was not getting anywhere paying rent vs paying payments on a loan , ive got a few thousand right now and am in a odd spot as i dont know if i should stop putting money away for a loan payment and buy a car ( i lost mine due to black ice and insurance didnt cover) i dont necessarily need it to work but i think it will be needed to look at potential properties when im getting ready to pull that triggerAnyways my plan when i first started my job was to just get fully licensed in plumbing and once i have it i would be knowledgeable enough to do most if not all plumbing repairs in any property thinking it would be saving me thousands of dollars when/if i needed to do any type of repair to the unit or its water/heating systems vs paying for it, granted as i get more and more property ill doubt ill still be interested in doing it but i figured its a good stable job to start with and i could always fall back on if needed.

I just wanted to add this correction in case anyone stumbles on my post above--I don't want to mislead anyone!

I feel fortunate to have stumbled upon this site and have already learned a ton just by reading posts and peoples input, really some great content!

I stumbled across a BP YouTube video and started listening to their podcast.