House hacking will also give you some personal "property management" experience.

We personally manage all of our properties except the STR and even with a FT Property Management company we still put more mindshare and effort there.

The listing agents hate it when I tell them I will present my buyer clients offer in person.

What’s more, doing a detailed market research, making a feasibility analysis, getting to know similar minded investors through networking are some of the ways that a person venturing into that field can avoid pitfalls.Good luck!

My wife and I were able to buy a SFH for our personal residence in 2022 and have since turned our focus on saving for our first investment property. 

I personally have mine through USAA.  

If you can't keep control of your personal finances, you are highly unlikely to succeed in real estate investing.

From the description of the duties that a broker will help you out with, it sounds like this is the type of person that I really need from the get go to help me get started out right.I'm thinking one of the first calls I make is to call one of these brokers, and develop a good relationship with a good broker.

(former Yugoslavia) Let's do it mate,You can watch me smoke heheJokesHappy to catch up any place so no issues at all.

Im happy to share any info I have based on my personal expierences along with my referl network.