If you are not someone who wants those tasks…maybe property management is for you.I second the idea of getting your feet wet with a simple rental property first before going all in or anything.  

Good luck and get your feet wet doing something.

It gives you a little time to get your feet wet and see if you want to go to school. 

You can easily get your feet wet in real estate investing and learn how to be a landlord.

Husband wants to go with a PM first just to get our feet wet and learn more without too much risk of failing at the landlord part.

How do I explaint it in plain English.Here's the basis data.Average MBS Spread between 2001-2023 is 90bps2008 MBS Spread is 175 bps2023 MBS Spread is 135 bpsThe higher the MBS Spread reflect the volatility of CRE(and SF) of real estate market ; but at  same time, those volatility would be normalized from average 20 years prior history.Having said that, there're lot of way to exploit this, for example: buy a crashing property, buy mortgage REIT, but MBS funds, buy MBB, bRRR highly priced home, goes to syndication that purchase MF with 30% discount....lot of method but the basic idea is , 2023 is the limited edition of 2008, and investing in 2009-2012 is the wet dream of real estate invstors LOL

You may be able to do some open houses on weekends to get your feet wet and be taught the biz.   

The house is 4BR 3.5BA single house the basement has its own bath but not kitchen, only wet bar.

So, getting my feet wet in a new market makes sense for me.

I recommend reading three books to get your feet wet:1 Wheelbarrow Profits2 Financial Freedom with real estate investing3 Best ever apartment syndication bookThere are podcasts by each of the above authors as well.