Furthermore, purchasing a new property for you and your wife to live in could allow you to turn the original residence into a rental thus kickstarting your portfolio.

Although I have an idea on how I can kickstart my real estate journey I was hoping to receive some pointers from people who are a lot more experienced.

Any advice on kick starting our wholesaling business when we've got about 5-10k to invest.  

There are a handful of sessions required as onboarding, which are generally less than an hour each and a helpful "kick start" for sales training, and broker-specific processes.

You can use HM to purchase the property and HELOC to pay the downpayment and kick start the construction and make draws to pay it back or use your HELOC entirely if rates are lower then use HML to finish up.

@Michael Celli congratulations on kickstarting your pursuit for a house hack deal.

To be clear, I'm not looking for cash investors, hand-outs, or someone to do all my dirty work, I'm a very hard-worker and just need the proper guidance to get me kick started. 

Thanks, Nick, for kickstarting such a great topic!

What would be a pro-tip or suggestion for me to kick start real estate investing?

If you really want to kickstart your investing I'd suggest keeping your condo as a rental, and purchasing a new property as a househack.