What are the best strategies you would advise to newbies and wish you knew when you started?

It was a bit misleading from a newbie section 8 landlord.

So with all that said, would you recommend any newbie syndicator to jump into the market at this time?

I do it mostly because the veteran real estate investors here know you never find anything but human feces and decades-old porn behind water heaters, and I think it's a great private joke for all of us about how weird this business is, especially seeing how the newbies react, all offended that anyone could possibly be dishonest here in the forums about finding rubberbanded and cellophane-wrapped stacks of used twenties in a hundred-year-old defunct crapshack in Yinzerburgh, of all places.And every year, right on the button, I get a bunch of people who insist they know exactly how I should invest my found money.

It will scare all the newbies who want to overpay away from the deal.

Welcome to BPSearch on these forums  and see some posts like thishttps://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/55/topics/1087923-newbi...Also look at meetups locally to meet REAL investors:)

I'm still building my sunny day reserves. And just starting my education on REI. What book(s) do you recommend I start my education with? Thanks

Newbie here.  

My tenant has not been paying rent for four months now and refuses to vacate.
I've posted and mailed 3-day notices, and uploaded them to the LAHD website four times already. I finally received a demand letter from a...

I am a newbie.