To earn that hands-on learning offer to do some of the work that would be more tedious to that investor but can also help you learn in the process, such as drafting an offer letter, initial cleaning of the property, etc.When it comes time that you'll have the cash and debt (and credit rating) position for your own first investment, you'll also have a solid foundation of learning. 

Which means two things for us by then: (1) build towards "enough" passive income (~10k / mo after taxes)(2) reach net worth ~$10m - including debt pay down across all assets - stocks + REHonestly, hadn't though past that, but your plan beyond 50 sounds like a pretty solid strategy to strive for.

He might not be in the area you are looking for, but he could make solid recommendations for you.  

I prefer the former because it includes a lot of solid financial information.

Both solid agents.

Does the rental scene have solid renter base there?  

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this discussion and helping out!I have an inside city limit house with 4bed/2bath home in great location that appraised for a little over 250,000 completely owned. We’re l...

However, although fall is super busy in this area, we are barely booked, but our competition with smaller properties are booked solid.

I was actually able to find a solid lender and qualify for a conventional loan at lower rate.

And you can rely on your agent to filter through the 99% of trash properties wholesalers are flipping contracts on and talk about things like actual costs to do the deal.BP is a great place to be...there are a lot of solid investor-agents here on the day-to-day.Best of luck going forward.