It all seems a bit like the Wild West, or a case study out of an economics textbook … maybe it actually will be in a textbook one dayBut I can say one thing for sure: on a personal level this is all so intoxicatingly interesting to me, and I feel so undeservingly lucky to be spending my days devoting this much attention to it.

I've learned more from them than any text book.

Oh yeah, there is no textbook definition of financial independence.

I am referring to the textbook that the course provider gives you when you register for the class. 

Any recommendations on books (technical manuals or textbooks OK) or other resources that would help expand one’s circle of competence in the area of private utilities, especially septic and water wells?

That's a text book definition of a 1031 investor.  

They teach you text book. 

According to the direct mail experts, that's a textbook mistake that people make.

But if you keep changing software or lazy tax offices - then such items are dropped, costing you money.This is the textbook dilemma: don't pay but risk costly errors or pay a professional.

You have the biggest text book on real estate investing, just waiting for you to open it.