You also know she's smoking in the unit (doesn't matter if it's a legal substance or not; smoking shouldn't be allowed indoors). 

When the home inspector walks through, and if he can find ANYTHING of substance that causes alarm, you can then further negotiate for seller credits. 

Tenant agrees not to place into any drain lines of the Premises any non-approved substances, such as cooking grease,sanitary napkins, diapers, children’s toys or other similar object that may cause a stoppage.

To get technical, you will be going up against the Economic Substance Doctrine which states that a transaction has economic substance if: (1) the transaction changes in a meaningful way (apart from Federal income tax effects) the taxpayer’s economic position; and (2) the taxpayer has a substantial purpose (apart from Federal income tax effects) for entering into such transaction.By transferring your primary residence into a LLC, you would not be changing your economic position.

Will they actually teach anything of substance? 

We need to know bit more on how you plan to finance the whole thing before we can give you something with more substance 

When someone blows so much smoke and is so quick to get nasty & personal instead of addressing the substance of the discussion.....well, such tawdry behavior reflects poorly on that person's judgment & credibility. 

The detectives revealed seizing a large amount of substance to be crack cocaine, ecstasy, cash, paraphenalia convicted felon in possession of a handgun, resisting arrest, tampering with physical evidence.

This time I took photos of them breaking all the house rules-leaving 1.5 hrs late, extra guests, spilled liquids on the floor and some unknown substance staining the sheets, photos of a cigarette box, cigarette butts, cigarette ashes.

I'm not saying that I don't appreciate some of the motivational content but at this point I'm already sold on RE investing and just want as much substance as possible.So, in a nutshell, for me and anyone else who stumbles across this post in the future: Knowing what you know now, what book would you start with and then what would be your next 2-3 steps after that?