While Colorado's market can be challenging due to high prices, exploring suburbs like Colorado Springs or Pueblo, or even considering out-of-state markets in the Midwest or Southeast, can open up better cash flow opportunities.

The Greater Phx market has many avenues to explore, depending on your goals.

Any tips on where to focus my time is greatly appreciated!

Best experience is hand on training, and not some workshop making you go back to pay for free information online. 

There are hundreds of thousands of people in this BiggerPockets community who are very successful at real estate investing and are willing to provide you with the same information as these guys, but for free. 

My biggest question is this: do you think I should continue to rent for now and prioritize tackling loans?

If I commit to this path, my goal is to generate a net income of $300,000 per year by December 2030.

This is where expert mortgage brokers come in, acting as your guide through the maze of real estate financing.

There are a bunch of ways to do this depending on the property type, usage, and you (income and credit scores).If this is a primary residence, you can get up to 90% of the value of your home minus any exisitng debt. 

For a select few, this can be true, but wholesaling is much harder to get off the ground.