Mark, An FHA loan was how I purchased my first duplex. 3.5% down with an incredibly low interest rate is the perfect way to start your investing career!

At this stage in your career, I suggest find a source of education.  

However it may be beneficial for you to consider a personal coach/mentor to catapult yourself through the early stages of your investing career. 

I do look forward to starting my REI career, although, I am in need of guidance and a mentor.

Hello all, My name is David and I am one of those people who is always looking to better themselves and listen to almost all and any GET RICH QUICK Guru's and wish I could afford it, I am like a lot of people who work a FT Corporate Career and would love to work for myself and better my family lifestyles, but all of these guru's must think I have money in the bank or even a high credit score and can afford to purchase their program to get started.

I am interested to hear about your construction background and if/how you want to use that in your REI career, if you wouldn't mind sharing a bit more on that.  

That one decision has helped me to catapult my investing career because it gave me a healthy chunk of cash to be able to use to invest, rehab, have reserves, etc.If I understand the BRRR strategy, I believe that usually involves getting a hard money loan to purchase and rehab the property and then you can refinance into a conventional loan, right?  

I'm a senior in construction science at Texas A&M, and have just started my career in real estate investing!

@Doug M. is looking to get his career started, he's right across the water from you in Everett.

I hope to start buying & renting or flipping depending on each scenario as my long term career.