Make sure to check out Education for all your REI learning.

The only thing I know for sure is not to give any money upfront before work is being done and/or complete.Reading a book only takes you so far in your comprehension of the renovation procedure.

Best/first thing to do is get educated.

Educate yourself on investing, create a criteria of the type of tenants you're looking for and stick with it.

-Brad Welcome BradThe best way to get started in my opinion is to start with the education tab.

It is the only school I could find that offers other undergraduate RED education (although in many articles it says it's the third to introduce it).

Don't pay anymore than 125 unless they are giving you a bundle.I used reedc.com (real estate education center) online for 85 just for the 75 hour course and bought a Barron's book with practice exams and a lot of study material for 22..Good luck!

Getting educated would be the best way to start.

Best/first thing to do is get educated.

Next, I would look into other more broad categories such as job growth, capitalization rate movements, demographic shifts, education levels, dependence on certain industries (regarding employment), public transportation, city development programs, etc.Regarding unemployment, I think there's a catch to low unemployment.