This book is full of great information and from what I can tell, it is the book that many real estate agents use as the framework for growing their businesses. 

Your question indicates that you have a lot of learning to do and frameworks to build.

Is it someone to tell you what to do, to help guide your thinking process, to bounce your ideas off of, as accountability to doing the work, to help increase your clarity and thus focused action, to help provide framework for investing, or to help provide framework for how to reduce bottlenecks, etc.  

While our top markets almost certainly won’t be yours, the framework may be useful in identifying your own.

The same can be said about many aspects of life.I have tried to simplify my investing framework into three categories: Time, Money, and Skills.They are all a leg to a three-legged stool, every deal requires all three.As a new investor, you need to know which of the three you can offer and if you can't invest any of the three then you are not willing to do what it takes.Time can equal learning skills, making money, or putting in sweat equity.

The only way out of analysis paralysis is straight through it.I've added an unconventional decision making framework I use here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1142782-a-sur...

So for the time being, your primary focus should be on contracting properties (acquisitions), transactions coordination, and delegating tasks to your operations manager.Let's chat about how psychology plays into all of thisI've successfully placed long-lasting hires in my company and my investing partners' companies by utilizing the Meyers-Briggs framework.

For many investors, finding and securing financing remains a frustrating mystery full of rejection and dead-end conversations.How I’ve managed to overcome this successfully overtime is what I call the enthuse, inform, educate framework.

You realtors/PM's should be able to assist you in getting a rehab budget built and the framework for a scope of work.To answer the questions about locations... it depends on the amount of risk you're looking to take on right now.

Borrowers seek more flexible terms and faster access to capital.2.2 Regulatory Environment:Evolving regulatory frameworks have pushed lenders to adapt and streamline operations.