Here are a few simple and free ways to learn: Go to real estate meetup groups, attend open houses and speak with the agent there, inspect FSBOs (for sale by owner), walk your area, and speak to people tending their yards.The idea is to engage with other people and ask, Ask, ASK questions about their experience with the local market.Some other ideas: find a home inspector who will let you tag along in a property inspection, and absorb what they are looking at and why.Your mindset and enthusiasm for learning about real estate will open many doors for you.Good Luck!

Online Facebook groups can be fruitfulOnce you find a property things tend to move fast so have a good contractor available to help you estimate repairs. 

We tend to offer this to Owners to figure out the best route for them to proceed on development/building/renovating.

I have read information that states newer homes tend to appreciate faster after they first come onto the market.  

Given the current market conditions, new construction and turnkey properties tend to offer a more stable and lower-risk entry point into real estate investing.

Quote from @Brian J Allen: I haven’t come across many articles connecting the Dunning-Kruger effect to real estate, so I thought I’d share my thoughts.In short, the Dunning-Kruger effect explains how, when you know very little about a subject, you tend to think you know a lot.

But I tend to like Bigger Pockets reviews even more because of the opportunity to interact with the author of the review.I will shout out to you in a pm as well.

Second since I am a property owner myself and also own a PM company I try to look at it from different angles.If the tenant wants things fixed it many times means that they plan to stay in the property and since they are picky they tend to take care of the home more.

The prices they have are towards the lower end and in PM you tend to get what you pay for.

I do have a program that can close on a blanket loan in multiple states - they do tend to like to cap that at 10-12 properties or $1MM in loan amount per blanket loan.