You can supplement your current income with real estate related jobs/tasks so you learn more about the industry, which will be helpful when you look to borrow since you will be able to show that you have experience to a lender.

Any help would be amazing and if you feel you are an expert in the industry I would very much appreciate you chiming in. 

In Orange County, investors I know are mostly flipping properties around Orange/Tustin/Anaheim or investing in the industrial asset class.

Now, I'm also a little concerned with how hard Alaska will be hit due to recent events and the layoffs, oil being so low, tourism being hurt this year and I even heard about the fishing industry taking a hit.

Words transform.

The tourist and hospitality industry drives the economy and I just think that that industry is being hit heavily and will be slow to recover from the coronavirus.

Apts are still the best-looking CRE compared to alternatives (excepting maybe leased out industrial).

I’m in LA county -Glendale - and just in the beginning stages of learning the industry and my market I plan to invest/do business.

Terrific...https://www.nmhc.org/news/press-release/2020/apartment-industry-urges-sba-and-treasury-to-amend-paycheck-protection-program-to-enable-multifamily-participation/

There are so many unknowns right now and if the hysteria over the virus drags on for months and this really does permanently change our way of life (I'm skeptical) with more permanent levels of social distancing or rolling lockdowns or who knows what, you might never see the restaurant industry recover, many types of office space might become obsolete, retail may move almost completely online.