This will happen just through the market activity that you analyze, and from the feedback that you will gather from other professionals in the area.  

I am just starting out in analyzing and trying to get a lay of the land in REI. 

I´m 25 years old, originally from Mexico City, but living in Columbus Ohio since 2016 due to a job relocation.I have a bachelor's degree in systems engineering and a MBA.Currently working a full time job on a supply chain company in Columbus, Ohio.Actively looking to learn and start investing on Real Estate in order to get an early retirement (stop working for a company and spend my time and money on my own business).I have very basic real estate experience at the moment.I guess as many of you I started a couple of years ago with "Rich dad poor dad" and from there I have been trying to run out from the rat race.On November 2016 I attended one of this guru weekend workshops and taking out the fact that they try to sell you a "magic formula" to get rich with just little effort and paying them 50K, I think it was a good introduction to what real estate investing is, get to know some vocabulary and a better idea of how the business works.After attending to the workshop I decided to research a little bit more about RE and I found this awesome site called BiggerPockets, in which I have found a lot of interesting forums, webinars and podcasts.My real estate goals at the moment look like these...2017 - Learn as much as possible about real estate market on my area, raising money and exit strategies.2018 - Have a detalied real state business plan and do my first investment.2019 and beyond - Spend a big amount of time and money working to get a monthly income of 5K on real estate investments.I´m currently looking for a mentor to guide my real estate experience on the greater Columbus area.My main interest at the moment is the buy and hold strategy, so most likely I would like to connect with people already making some money of rental properties, but I´m always open to learn different strategies.In reward, my mentor will get my commitment of about 10 to 15 hours a week of hard work on helping get and analyze deals by performing some time consuming tasks that could be delegated to me so I can learn about the business while I help someone else grow your business.

I used the BRRR deal analyzer, you can use it a few times for free.  

Then they will invest their time in working with you, and send you deals to analyze.

@Raheem JamaalSo you have never invested in real estate, never bought a deal, never analyzed a deal (with all expenses including capex), have no credibility, and now you are going to establish a pipeline of great deals, on demand, with no competition for actual investors?

I have purchased one house already and am starting to analyze the market for the next property.

My hope is that as I go through this process of sharing my ideas I will be forced to analyze each step and fill in any knowledge gaps I may have taken for granted.

Added expenses ive used on every deal ive analyzed.

Then I should analyze ROI in every state/city.