Hi BP Community,I recently joined after discovering Real Estate Rookie podcast, and my partner and I are looking to invest in real estate in Maryland.

What's your strategy for getting your first investment property?

I plan to focus on short-term rentals in a property that I’m house-hacking, and hopefully move on to multifamily properties from there.I purchased Brandon Turner’s books Rental Property Investing and Investing in Real Estate with No Money Down.

RE Pro Status supercharges this.If you or your spouse are an RE Pro, your LP investments can lead to depreciation offsetting both passive and active income.If you are not an RE Pro, the losses due to depreciation can only be used to offset passive income—such as income from other rental properties or other passive investments.

Go read the next 100 threads below this one in the mobile home park investing subforum that we are in. :)

Start by reading the Ultimate Real Estate Investing Guide: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides/ultimate-real-estate-investing-guide/introduction2.

I'm up in Jupiter & have been looking for investment groups .  

You can find an opportunity like this a lot quicker if you go to local real estate investing meetups every month/week in your area.

The city of Marquette is quite restrictive and is getting hard to invest in overall.

I do not like this as obviously if a business account is only accumulating rent from 1 property, it wouldn't accrue the cash in each as quickly as it would if all of the rents were funneled into one account.. and it makes paying the bills a bit of a pain on each of the properties as I am having things done to the properties, lawn care, etc.. constantly has me making owner investment deposits into each to cover initial expenses associated with the properties.. etc.