Don't make your life more complicated than it has to be.

Explore my personal favorites, Set For Life by Scott Trench or The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey, for invaluable financial insights.3.

Inspections are very good for homeowner buying a primary residence because its a huge purchase in their life and they usually have little knowledge or experience, but many experiencedinvestors myself included feel confident that we will see most anything an inspector would. 

Ideally, if REI allows us to live the life we hope to have, we will have a lot more flexibility to volunteer our time as well as having more monetary resources with which to help others.

You need to go to in-person real estate investor meetups for at least six months and then the books and podcasts will come into real-life vision for you.

Sometimes it's ambiguous, but even then, why should I bother with the company that has numerous unresolved lawsuits, versus another company that is virtually the same but has none.

It's genuinely life coaching at a very high level.  

I have been looking into the South Philadelphia market as the area is expecting the Bellwether District, a megadevelopment of industrial and life-science buildings, to be delivered in phases over the next dacade.

Another advice I have been given is "just be a good landlord" but that doesn't protect me against crazy tenants and ambulance chasing lawyers who would be happy to destroy my life. 

Your wife/husband/life partner/whatever gets a veto over tactics, risk, and purchases.