I recommend trying Propelio for free 2 week trial and see how that works in your desired search area!!!

Start digging around for good deals on a place that you could live in and rent part of it out (roomates, etc.).You'd end up getting a crash course in finding and buying, plus the adventures in owning and fixing, and hopefully living for less because others would help you pay for the place.If I was starting in my twenties, I'd pull some variation of this!

Because of your trials and success, and your telling of them, I was able to get the courage needed to begin looking into real estate and now starting my own journey.

This is our trial version... we'll see how it goes and make adjustments from there.

Tenants do not have funds to pay rent, they need to move out no matter what.Your property is not free house or public shelter to stay.In my case, Bad tenant gave me bounced check so I hired lawyer and filed eviction; waiting for court trial date.

I was advised to accept it or face a jury trial (disastrous for the owner).

. - Refi and get an interest only loan, pull out about $300k in equity from her home and buy a rental propertyI'm sure there are tons more options and lots of variations here on how to do it. 

I know some of you are pursuing variations on this.

Looking around for a mortgage company who offers 203K / rehab loans (or some variation) for our future primary residence in Pittsburgh (for once we are rehabbing our own house!)

Because turnkey seems so hands off, I feel like I'd handicap this learning process, not to mention the trial and error I'll likely need to go through before establishing my "go to" out of state team (e.g. realtor, PM, etc.) in a given market.