Do you recommend any resources I can use to educate myself of landlord-tenant laws? 

You will get pitched, but good coaches want you to get some reps first or else they aren't really coaching you, they are educating you and you can do that part for free.

Bigger Pockets is a great place for education and networking. 

Not thrilled that it appears to be going up, but glad to know that we aren't the only ones experiencing longer hold times.

They just aren't that profitable.  

When you analyze a market properly (1% Rules aren't properly), you're analyzing all the properties in that market at the same time.It's even more dangerous for newbies to use any Rule of thumb.Rules of thumb are nothing but shortcuts, which seems to be the growing method of doing anything now. 

If the numbers aren't there yet, I'd suggest focus on growing your income, look into house hacking as previously suggested, or consider partnering with other investors who can qualify for the loans.

What these $20 - 40k “mentorship’s” sell is a SHORTCUT, but it does NOT work because the PRIMARY real estate education and knowledge MUST be there in order to be able to implement and strategy or tactic correctly, at the correct time, and under the correct conditions.  

Typically you aren't buying a fixer upper with a conventional loan.

When you are comparing a condo to a SFH there aren't many pros but there are a lot of cons.