Hang out with others that are doing what you want to do and invest your $25-$50,000 in real estate vs education. 

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@Richa Wardhan every investor has to find their own answer to your basic question - focus on portfolio growth or paying off what you have.Portfolio Growth leverages your money using loans and tenants paying off these loans.

We specialize in helping investors access opportunities in both residential and commercial markets, leveraging our network and industry knowledge to identify high-potential deals.

While this is a great and highly motivating goal, most people are either clueless or incorrect in their belief as to what is required to obtain this “lifestyle”.Understanding of the “how to” get there is further obscured by the misleading, and often patently false “pathways” sold by real estate educational MARKETING companies as workshops, upsold to association memberships, upsold to mentorships.

I'm a newbie to real estate investing and am currently focused on intensely educating myself about all things real estate and how to get my first rental property deal.

But I purchased land in cash and leveraged it to build a new construction stick built home.

Quote from @Kimberly Venable: It's getting the right education.

You would not want to over-leverage the property though.  

I've had a long career in community development and have a lot of bank contacts that would likely be interested in investing, but I'd need to prove the concept first with an initial fund (there are also a lot of other community development tools that could be leveraged to maximize and scale this).