Short-term sacrifices and delaying gratification will bring you abundance later in life.Definitely take advantage of your first-time home buying benefits and consider house hacking a duplex or 4-plex.

Realize my income is too low, my cash reserves are too low, and my timeline is too short.

The riskiest strategies that have the highest projected income are flipping and short-term rentals, behind that, BRRRRing, and behind that is turn-key cash flowing long term rentals.

We run a debt fund and focus on short-term mezzanine funding mainly. 

Each lender / investor will have their own guidelines in terms of reserve requirements needed on purchase transactions. 

One job pretty much determined whether I could hold another job or not. 

Others employ a BRRRR method or do wholesale deals/flips to have cash to invest long term. 

A rental is a long term play. 

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

In short, no, it is not a bad time to start investing.