Hi All - Looking for recommendations on a career shift to speed up my education in real estate investing.

It would help us to understand the attainability of your goal if you would mention how many flips you have under your belt already.Assuming you are experienced, then I'd say move forward, full speed ahead--you can do it.If you are inexperienced, I would respectfully suggest you change from a $$$-oriented goal to a ### of transactions goal.Why?

A lot of the online calculators will automatically input 5% for both capex and maintenance and then you can usually edit it if you use a different number.

In other words, "great deals" are not going to automatically pop-up on Zillow at every page.

Seven years ago these properties were selling for 80-90k, now they're selling 125-140k and I don't see any reason this will reverse over the next 5-7 years.Also, like you were saying, Section 8 just increased their rates in this area and there's always tons of demand for Section 8 on the west side. 

However, if one of his creditors files a collection or judgment, he has to either pay those off and wait a couple o fyears or he has to wait until they drop off the credit report in seven years.

We are taught and automatically born into a system that turn us into "financial slaves" or "financial soldiers" of the system.  

For example our local gas and electric company (Baltimore Gas and Electric) has a program called the Automatic Change Name program that PMCs can enroll in.

Because of the speed and ease, of making and cleaning up, I think this is a habit I can maintain for the reset of my life

I would love to do one where its like speed dating you get to spend 5 minutes with each person that shows up and connect.