Plenty of support so keep engaged with the forums and free resources on the site (podcasts are an excellent start!).

Welcome to BP Nate and Sharon, I think you will find this to be an excellent networking site, but there are tons of other resources here, so make sure you take some time to navigate the site.

If you are considering getting your Florida real estate license, that is an excellent idea.

Starting out as you are your timing is excellent, make sure you include the other half in all of your decisions.

Wishing you and yours a very happy, healthy, and productive 2014.@ Darren: Good to know about the meetups.@ Ali: I chose Dekalb County because I have some acquaintances down there.

Excellent story.

There are many more that are excellent reading and full of great and new ideas.

I did not let any of that stop me from excelling.

And there's always some great articles at: http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/Also, I'd check out the free BiggerPockets Podcast Josh and Brandon do an excellent job of bringing different guests on and finding golden nuggets of info.

A couple things from my perspective: TX is a very low barrier to development state especially compared to CA and even the geography is wide open so the danger is that developers will just move a mile down the road and build new product to compete with yours if good employment is headed that way.