Where should I start?

First off congrats on doing what your doing now, that's a big stepping stone and I wish I did the same thing starting out. 

Does anyone have any good ideas on what would be the best way to start out in this area without going into the negatives?

Come to find out his wife's dad had a career in real estate, his friend works at a firm as a private lender (that's how he got started), the houses were 50k houses and half of them were trailers...His personal house, while large was in the middle of nowhere...You can see the focus shifted from real estate investing to social media marketing.

House hacking is essentially the cheat code to get started into real estate investing.Generally done by utilizing FHA loans and 2-4 unit properties.Basically, buy a primary residence, live in it or one of the units for 12 months, move out buy again and do it all over again.Each time you can utilize fha as long as you refi the former before you use it again.Great way to buy a lot of properties with low entry cost!

He has not started any work yet and is not owed any money.

I've started my journey in the expensive Seattle market and found house hacking a duplex gave me a tremendous boost as my first property.The top 10 advantages that played out quite well:1.

Roy, not only did we give you our ALL to get you across the finish line....most of the time we couldn't even get you to the starting gate!

Hi - Congrats on starting your investment journey!

@Ryan TongueWe started with a smaller credit union and ended up switching to Chase as we grew.