No degrees necessary unless you want to be RE Broker.

If you are buying in a new community your builder will be your competition both should you want to sell and also if your rental prices are higher than the cost to buy, to a degree.

I have a degree in Interior Design, so of course I want the best looking properties- but I've realized that I'm going to have start low and not so pretty, and work my way up.

There is a degree of personal preference here that will have to be factored in.     

Before dumping your capital into another property, I advise that you educate yourself on real estate investing to a certain degree, otherwise, you're going to have shady folks reaching out trying to take advantage of the situation.

Do this while taking a 360 degree video and focusing briefly on the repair points.

It get to 100 degrees almost every summer for a bunch of days.

My daughter(22 years) is going to be attending Binghamton University to get her Nursing degree, in their accelerated Bachelors to BSN program. 

The company I have a contract with couldn't get out due to increased service calls and it was going to be 15 degrees that night. 

Since then, I've gone onto obtain several rental properties, mentor multiple new investors, initiate and manage several RE joint ventures and obtain my Master's Degree in Real Estate, all as a part time investor.I'm conducting research for a book I'll be publishing later this year that addresses the initial fears/concerns that all new RE investors face when purchasing that very first rental property.