Then you can read a more in-depth book like The Book On Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner or The Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing by Spencer Strauss.2.

I am working on getting my brokers license in the mean time.

As of this moment.

I am thinking about putting together a tour of 2-3 ADUS in Pasadena CA that are under construction or recently built to get a better sense of the ADU building process.

This requires coming out to real events with real investors.

I have someone who wants only 41k for this property with about 21k worth of repairs. 

There are parts of every major city that will just never come up and this seems to be one of the most obvious in Philly.

@Andrew MontgomeryNot sure if you can access some of your 401k and roll it into a self directed IRA to start  investing as a passive investor in someone else's deal, to learn while you earn.You are looking at it linearly.

How many units do you plan to acquire in the next 3-5 years?

This is very hard to maneuver, and even harder to make work despite tenants agreeing.