Need Starting off Advice!

[J B]

Hi...I'm a 24 yr old female living in NYC...Ive been wanting to get into real estate investing (buy and flip to sell) for the past 1yr and a half...I'm really anxious to start....Im planning to buy a 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom condo next summer 09....to get myself ready i decided to...

1. take real estate courses this summer
2. go to some seminars
3. and working on getting a monthly payments on my debts to start paying them off
4. get a real estate investor who flips homes as a mentor

Any suggestions on what else I should put on my list or whats already on my list?....I have more than a year to prepare....someone who started off with no money or very little money have any suggestion would be excellent....also someone to explain the whole borrowing and lending thing which to me is very confusing.

Thanks