I have read through Michael Blank's Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing and am ready to go on to next steps. 

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

I'm Katie from Spring, TX, passionate about real estate investing.

Nothing is free in real estate.

When investing OOS, make sure you work with an investor focused agent so you're able to get a good idea of the different areas and make the right investments.

As a fellow professional looking to get into real estate investing, I can definitely relate to the challenges of balancing your practice with exploring investment opportunities.

Real Estate investing and management of all my properties is all I do.

Being in the real estate business, I enjoy watching real estate news on social media, it gives me peace of mind.

Having been in many aspects of real estate throughout my career my favorites are ground up construction and note investing. right now note investing takes the cake as it can be done in any environment whereas ground up right now is very challenging. 

Example: claiming tax benefits from the STR loophole or from the Real Estate Professional Status (REPS) - which, by the way, are two completely separate things.