Read the Ultimate Beginners Guide in the education tab up above.

Hopefully, this will ring through to you in how best to start in this industry and simply stay away from strategy type instructors until you have accomplished the basics, I hope so. :)          

Since I was in Texas and planned on staying there I found out that I was qualified to take a test and become a real estate broker so I took the test and I got my license even though I have not ever used that full time.  

Hi Lisa Taylor $525k as You have notice, It dosent Buy a wow place in San Diego seems like a lot, for What You get, Also loan To Income ratio, You technically could buy a $700k depending on savings, $334 HOA is real high, I would really consider am I buying this place cause I love it and if you were you may not be asking us and you should get guided into more important since is the largest purchase in your life, is it a good investment where is my property my neighborhood My complex gonna be in 3-10 years.

Since I was in Texas and planned on staying there, I found out that I was qualified to take a test and get a real estate broker license so I took the test and got my license.  

The landlord accepted partial rent for a year and is going to have to explain to a judge or court why he allowed you to stay and made no attempt to evict.

The rooms are furnished so i decided to rent the rooms out through Airbnb for stays of 30 days plus.

These policies help the rich get richer and the poor stay poor.

I highly suggest you to read, "The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Real Estate Investing".

It did exactly that, I took the Ultimate Beginners Guide and it put me in the right direction.The reason I put "Trainee" in my subject is because I bought into the systematic way of thinking so I have acquired quite a bit of debt, and none of it is a "good debt".