The Bigger Pockets book store if full of great books: https://www.biggerpockets.com/store

Also, go to a locksmith store and purchase the devices that can be installed on windows to lock them without needing to drill into the frame.

I live in Franklin and it is 10 minutes to Cool Springs (mall and commercial area with every store imaginable) and you are just 30 minutes from Downtown which is not so much shopping, but great restaurants and a lot of events.

Ditto with all the reminders and notifications of birthdays and anniversaries stored in them.  

The Bigger Pockets book store if full of great books: https://www.biggerpockets.com/store

I want to be the one FLIPPING these houses and making a difference in dilapidated neighborhoods but I don't have the financial backing so I just feel like a kid in a candy store with no candy money.

That will be office 2016 for Mac, it'll be a huge change but 100% worth it from '08.https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Office-for-Mac/categoryID.69404500

The Bigger Pockets book store if full of great books: https://www.biggerpockets.com/store

Learn a LOT about investing out of state.Research the market you are going into and figure out the best markets.Make connections in those markets and vet those connections.Save up more money and move up from the war zone and go to a $30,000 to $50,000 minimum market where there is less crime, less vacant lots and vacant houses, where the police will actually respond to a call from a homeowner, where there are jobs for your tenants to work at, where there are schools for your tenants to send their children, where there are real grocery stores for them to buy real food (not gas station or fast food).  

I also paid for an app: DealCheck from the Apple Store!