I am reading all of the comments and digesting it all to see if I have more questions.

I'm under contract for my first one too and I'm digesting any and all knowledge I can find.

It will be neat to see discussion on the tax bill itself, but also loopholes and strategies that develop once the massive bill has been digested. 

We thought it might be a good idea to convert the thread into something more digestible, so we pulled out all the questions from other users and transformed it into an ebook that we're offering for free to all members of BiggerPockets.

A few quick questions about the 1% rule while digesting the BP Intro to Real Estate Analysis.Do you subtract vacancy from gross monthly rent to get the numerator?

The Freedom Militia School of thought being that you can buy ammo with gold, but as Micth pointed out above, at some point my ammo will be worth more then your gold, depending on the circumstances (if you believe in that kind of stuff) my ammo will be worth more to me than any amount of gold, since my rifle won't shoot gold and it would be very hard to digest!

There were 2 classes released a week, which allowed for time to digest the material.

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They're all super smart people with a lot to say, and I think most of the attendees are those who can digest deeper level info.  

I'm in the same boat myself and trying to read and digest as much RE books as possible.