Any books you can recommend?

You should read more books on this topic because you haven’t even scratched the surface.

Catherine id highly recommend spending a full day or two consuming youtube videos that specifically go into detail about this process, theres so much to teach and writing this whole thing out would literally be a whole book.

I'm reading up on books and articles on how to do this but sometimes it's easier to join social groups or talk to people close to me that have done it before.Right now my goal is to get pre-approved for a loan and to learn from others.

Local and regional banks also have a ton of those loans on the books so let's see what will happen.  

There are plenty of books out there that give you advice and tips on what to do and how to draft leases but if you're still uncomfortable, then having an agent by your side for the first rental, might not be a bad idea. 

Your advisor is right on in my book.

We'll see PT stocking(at major shops) increase as we head into the holidays, I'm curious the amount of jobs versus previous years.Problem is the lying is so rampant, hell it's "main-stream" now for cooked-books and out-right lying in reports. 0 accountability anymore, 0. 

The podcasts, the books, the forums, the community, lean into it.

You can read The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs by @J Scott as a guide, but the current numbers for your area will be different.Don't let someone tell you that you can just do per square foot.