If you’re open to looking across the state—from Jacksonville to Sarasota—you can definitely find some solid deals, but you’ve got to be strategic and focus on markets that fit your goals.

I made a few deals in North Dallas.Special assessments and HOA fees are a risk and renting out a condo most likely won't generate much of a cash flow.At $300k with you credit and saving you can still qualified for a loan for sure we have to find the program that works for you.On that budget you could find a nice place no that far from work so you don't have to move far to the suburbs. 

It's a challenging enough market with an abundance of bad actors.

I can't see how some investors cashflow just $100 per door in some markets. 

I would even suggest a Primary home or Vacation home to pull the cash out of versus trying to find a lender who will agree to be in 2nd lien position behind a investment property.

It's like the 70% rule, you can use it to narrow down 100 deals to 30 deals to dive deeper, but you need to know estimates per house..

Do you guys have any advice on how can I get started in my real estate journey as an agent and potentially an investor??

Two concerns:1) How much of the repair investment would you get back?

I have been very successful in helping clients acquire Airbnb homes and creating themes and uniqueness for their homes to be more appealing and marketable.

All good reading and listening, education is best and if you want to learn you have to ingest as much information as possible.I read many books that helped me, but my go-to is listeining to at least 2hrs of podcast with real examples per day.One very important things that "want-to-be" fails is to understand that real estate has many different specialities, so you have to focus your time in your real project.