It's an education that Harvard, Yale or Stanford can not provide and it's FREE! 

I am using this time to educate myself while saving up for my first property.

My piece of advice would be to try to take advantage of as much free education as possible with podcasts, forums like these, YouTube, and other real estate investors.

Bigger Pockets is a great place for education and networking and is full of great content.I recommend that you check out the following resources:1.

Bigger Pockets is a great place for education and networking. 

Real estate investing has been a passion of mine for time with my mother also having invested early on where I likely have gotten the love and desire to follow similar foot steps.I have taken last 6 months to educate myself and currently own a single family home as primary residence and would like to expand to multi family properties (2-4 units) for additional stream of income, not to mention potential tax benefits for long-term investing.Based on current living situation, I have a fair amount of equity established in my primary residency along with having enough cash to either pay off house completely or use towards investing in a multi family property.Given that I'm the sole source of income for our household with my wife being the home maker for our two kids under 2, trying to weigh out risks with getting started now or perhaps waiting. 

I have been educating myself for the last 6 months on Real Estate Investing!

For networking and education, I recommend checking out CIREIA (Central Indiana Real Estate Investors Association).

Being patient with the deals you want to invest in and expanding on your education to know what a 'good' deal really looks like.

I’m mainly looking to educate myself for the long term.