I got start by hiring mentors, reading books, listening to podcasts, and networking.I started investing in single family homes and fix-and-flips while in business school. 

If you want to get more familiar with creative financing, here is a great podcast to listen to: http://www.thecreativefinancin...I am not affiliated in any way, just a fan (not a fan boy). 

Sometimes my brain gets all jumbled when I listen to the podcast and hear how Brandon says to ask “How can I make it happen” and hear some of the stories about partnering up and things of that nature.

If you enjoy listening to bigger pockets podcasts the more recent podcasts have touched on this subject and how we are in a different market and ways to handle it/prepare for the future. 

You need to create a spreadsheet either on the old-fashioned spreadsheet paper, with Excel.You need to calculate the profits for hundreds or thousands of properties to determine what your profits will be based on many things I am not going to list because I am on prescribed narcotic, but some of them start with purchase price, rental income profits after all expenses, profits earned from your tenant's help paying down your mortgage, the amount you will earn from expected appreciation (but you can't believe one word anyone tells you about how a property will appreciate, the other 10 or 20 things my brain can't think of and my next most-important thing you (nobody else can or will do this for you).You never estimate how much you earn on a property by listening to anyone because the numbers almost never look pleasant during the period the property is for sale.

I've been listening to massive amounts of podcasts while I work my day job, and reading everything I can. 

My advice is to listen heavily to the bigger pockets podcast.

Hi all, I listened to a great Bigger Pockets Real Estate podcast and I can't find it now. 

Listen to every BP podcast you can.

I’m listening to podcasts, reading books, and just learning everything I can about real estate investing.