I hope to have the opportunity to connect with like minded individuals in the area as well as learn as much I possibly can to get started investing. 

Another thing to think about is Individual leases for rooms!

I would love to get advice from individuals on the best way to pick these contacts up.

I looked at many other options but as a start I felt like real estate investing was the way to go to build my knowledge of the world.Through real estate I want to be able to become financially free to be able to pursue other long term goals and riches I have planned for.

Put in some key word searches like military, Oklahoma and you will start finding some like minded individuals on here.

You will receive an Addict award along with a habit; as well as learning and retaining useful real estate information without struggling.We are considered to be the average of the 5 people we spend the most time with so connect with REIA meetings, accountability partners, and mastermind groups to engage with individuals interested in real estate investing.At the bottom of this page is a list with help in it.

I'm not just a buyers agent, I'm an individual agent so I do selling and buying and work with investors :) feel free to contact me with any questions!

You'd want to make sure that the individual soliciting you for investments operates with Integrity, is Trustworthy, and has a nice list of completed projects.If you have no completed projects under your belt, bring in someone who does 

Also different individuals are going to have bigger or smaller reserve funds than others.  

Michael S. mentioned Low Or No Money Down Investing, which is a Bigger Pockets ebook that can be downloaded for free.Bigger Pockets has various resources: ebooks, blogs, podcasts, forums, webinars, colleagues, keyword alerts, an awards system, a learn section, informative people in many fields of real estate, and mastermind groups to engage with individuals interested in real estate investing.