LinkedIn, BiggerPockets, Facebook, join every group you can find, and start chatting people up.Finally, you can start posting on social media about what you're doing and do some education on an aspect of investing for free to attract leads.

Since you’re new, the best first step is research and education: read up on wholesaling contracts, assignment strategies, and local zoning/regulations for specialized rentals like sober living.

I am a residential investment loan officer and encourage you to utilize me as a resource to help you navigate through and become better educated about lending options / borrower strategies.

It's not a guarantee or anything of profit, but they do a lot of the analysis and research for you and educate you on how to analyze properties so that you can make educated decisions.  

The prompts people share online are built for tech companies, not for someone underwriting a 150-unit value-add deal or pulling rent comps in a new submarket.That led me to start the AI for CRE Collective... the largest AI education platform specifically for Real Estate.

You may not have an idea of what you want to do when you first start off, but just by having the experience, networking with people, and educating yourself you will see where what you learned in applied knowledge to the field will greatly help you.

You will learn so much though, that it will be an invaluable education for future investing.As others have said though, avoid foundation issues (always more issues found when you start) and historical districts.

Most importantly in a good education on the tax strategies involved around where to save your money (IRA, Roth, Taxable account). 

As a powerful organization, I would like to see Bigger Pockets become a leader in not simply educating real estate investors but leading the way in warning investors about the real estate guru pitfalls.  

Even if you’re not investing here, the key is to pair your education with action this summer.