Working with the family friend who knew very little about investing set us back a bunch but once we connected with like minded people and discovered house hacking we were put on the fast track.  

If you want to be mentored your best bet is to go work for a company - most CRE is not a single individual and CRE is fast moving and things happen fast and you can't structure a "follow me to learn" without working for someone 

You'll find stuff on the market, you have to be fast.

Kody, you need to investigate the Pace Subto group and pay to get in. 

The seller was interested, but I got busy and didn’t follow up fast enough.

So you use hard money or cash, fix it, resell it...and try to resale fast. 

Here are the top 3 I see most investors making:- Not responding fast enough to inbound leads – Speed is everything!

While many experienced investors buy them up as fast as they can.You are going to get a lot of varying and different advice. 

Just today I got a booking request at 3:30am here in WA state.

At 8pm last night, the seller's agent said his client would sign the paper today.