Some advice (as a foreign) that you may already be doing: 1) build your credit score (use and pay credit cards and other bills and get your info - SSN or ITIN - linked to it). 2) start/improve relationships with banks, property managers, realtors, etc, this will help a lot. 3) start studying your local market (I would say, Burlington, MA as you mention you will work there), that way when you decide to invest you will be familiar with prices, location, etc and will be able to make a decision faster. 

I have been studying about investing in real estate and i came to realize that there is so many routes one can take about starting. 

According to a study done by State Farm and the Insurance Information Institute the average cost of a dog related injury claim is $49,000. 

I frame new construction homes and after listening to the podcast I thought hey maybe I'll qualify and then be able to run a cost segregation study on one if not both of the properties and then take that deprecation/loss against my 1099 income.

Study & become familiar with the Tenant and Landlord laws for the area or hire someone familiar

Attorneys study the law for years (and usually have to go to law school) and have to pass the bar, which is quite difficult to pass.

Study the market.

Hi All,I am a senior at the University of Alabama studying Finance, Economics, and Real Estate. 

Someone did a study- very detailed study comparing stock returns to RE returns over the past 100 years.

What you need is a good no-cost estimate to determine if a study is worth doing based on your specific tax situation.