Unless you find an unmissable deal (which is hard to come by these days), I would maybe even play it safe in your shoes and wait for maybe 6 months to see where you stand and where the market stands.

The best way to get started in real estate is to learn as much as you can by reading books, listening to podcasts, learning from other people's experience in BP forums, and looking for the right mentor too.

Listening to the Real Estate Guys (highly recommend their podcast) I had heard so much about investing out of town.

I’ve gone from your shoes (figuring out what to buy for my first property in or around Philly), to now 16 properties since I began!

I have been reading books about it and listening to the BP podcasts for almost a year now.

I’m learning as much as I can about investing while on this one year journey from reading books listening to podcasts and practicing analyzing properties while I have internet approximately once a month for a few days.I’m originally located in Orlando, FL and plan to purchase a 4-plex to start house hacking with once I’m home.Long term goal is to have a portfolio of multifamily properties.

He talked non stop in a thick accent and had NO listening skills.

Listen to this, every day for a week.

I was anxious for my first deal because I was listening to BiggerPockets podcast and Grand Cardon.

I've ordered the BRRRR book from BiggerPockets, and I've listened to BP Episode 327 where they do a BRRRR deep dive where David softly advised against this (@ 1:19:48 in BP 327) because it wasn't efficient, but I wanna learn more and see if it would be a good-enough way to get into real estate for someone in my position.I'm estimating that by the time I'm ready to buy--November 2022--I'll have $70,000 (not including my emergency fund) in cash for everything: cosmetic-only renovations, initial down payment, closing costs, etc.