One publication I enjoy reading is Emerging Real Estate Trends 2019, published by Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Since you're looking at a two-year period that will likely be 'inactive' with respect to real estate, you should discover what kind of investment strategy you're interested in.

Great advice.I did something similar - I bought a rental condo before I ever purchased a primary, and then I stupidly sold it a couple years later after it had significantly appreciated (because I hadn't discovered BP and didn't know anything about investing yet!)  

Hopefully within the next year or so I'll have learned well enough and be in a good enough financial position to start finding deals and/or my core four.Looking forward to learning more, discovering which area/market would work for me, and reviewing/lurking over deal posts lol. 

Have you discovered if Booleans work here?  

Then once they are on the same page, and if their numbers come back similar, that probably means it’s somewhat accurate, but the only way to know if get as many quotes as possible, if 5 quotes are within $5k and one is $20k cheaper, it probably means the low guy missed something and will try to get it back later through an argument, or just leave it out because it was missed and may not get discovered, or he underbid the job just to get it, and either won’t have enough money to pay his crew and finish, will finish but will try to get more money out of you through change orders, or just may not make any money, which is bad for him and you because he won’t be in business much longer! 

Jobs are expected to grow in the Ada county above 15% from 2017 to 2030 (source: The McKinsey Global Institute).

If you discover that you are doing a syndication there is an extra layer of legal documents and restrictions that will come into play.

I think it is this culture and sharing of an abundant mentality that further attracts me to real estate investing and others that discover it as well.

I just started to discover this website and appreciate all the wealth of knowledge!