https://www.biggerpockets.com/real-estate-investing This guide will give you a very thorough overview of real estate investing and help you pick your niche.Be sure to download and listen to the Bigger Pockets podcasts.

Good rentals will bring money in without demanding a lot of your time provided you pick carefully and manage them properly.

I'm young and unattached and am ready to pick up and move across the country if that's what it takes.I've been researching each state individually and an forming my own opinions about which ones have the best laws and ways of doing their auctions.I'm strongly considering Texas, Nevada, and Florida.

Once in a while I get lucky and pick something up that is perfect, or near so, because of an odd-ball situation.

Hypothetically lets say I buy this house, do I pick up their old lease where the previous landlord left off?

Let agents work for you, you can be lazy, pick and choose the deals you want, make low ball offers, make one or two deals a month, flip, wholesale, assign, oh...... the sweet glory of it all, the freedom to invest in real estate with no money or OPM.....the pleasure of investing and making offer and cashing equity profit checks is just overwhelming. .......!!!

I can pick a brain like nobody's business! 

Pick yourself up, carry on, and figure it out so you don't make the same mistake twice.

I would pick a property that's at the highest you would want to be in debt for.

Once you've gathered as much relevant info as you can on your own and think you have a good idea about some markets, call a bunch of property managers that service the areas your looking at and pick their brains.