It sounds like you have a pretty firm grasp of what you are looking for, and a great background to get started.

I feel like I have a good grasp on setting up the different accounts and inputting the expenses.If I'm understanding you correctly you have to manually input the expenses (principle, interest, escrow) every month.

Most "rules" are written by people who either have something to gain by the rule - money, notoriety, information, whatever - or really don't have a firm grasp on the situation and thus are coming up with rules that make no sense for most people. 

I am still grasping how crowdfunding or general deal making  works as well so do people create company and then just invest in a property.

I'd think that either they don't have a good grasp of the issue, or perhaps it wasn't explained well enough to them?

I have to scratch my head a little when folks don't quite seem to grasp what you're talking about here, and some simply overcomplicate things.

As long as you have a good grasp of that, you will know which ones make sense and which are not in the majority of the time.

Till I got a better grasp on my market and new what areas I can go as high as 75%

I never did take finance in college so a lot of these concepts are still sometimes hard for me to grasp.

Throughout the call, my only impression of Brian was that of sincerity and knowledge, he had recommendations out the Wazoo and a honest to god want for you to grasp what he was talking about so that you could grow from the conversation you were immersed in.