Needing advice in my rental portfolio start

[Chuck Spradlin]

Hello my name is Chuck and I’m super eager to start my real estate investment journey, I’m working with a realtor and a lender and have viewed a couple homes one potential that me and my wife want to buy unfortunately this doesn’t meet the criteria for the one percent rule, in the beginning I reached out to a investor realtor in my area using bigger pockets which fell thru due to a family emergency on the realtors end I moved forward with a reputable realtor in my area but I’m really not sure if I should move forward the house fits our needs at the moment and it does involve a little sweat equity but no a lot to do it’s mostly done how do i navigate way I should do next should I put our families needs first and just sell after two years or rent out ultimately is what we are wanting to do, I will say I’m a little overstimulated with this process in how everything is going and how hard it is for my area to find that first rental investment that both fits our needs and our rental portfolio any advice would help and thanks