Watch out for build-up of humidity.

After reading, listening, watching everything I could on BP, we pulled the pin and closed on my first SFH.

I would also continually watch the market in your target area to get a better feel for what is selling, what features are important, and how long houses are sitting on the market. 

The REIT industry, after facing turbulence, is projected to see a resurgence with total returns expected to climb.Distressed sales, particularly in urban areas, and investments in senior housing are highlighted as key sectors to watch.

Probably they don't or you can watch them get heated up on the spot and make stuff up.Most of the national acts really seemed to be selling something else that probably won't help you.....database software for $30-100/month.   

(must watch).Hey Congress.

Benjamin Franklin said something like "Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves".

I don't know about this cap rate projection, at least in CRe-Retail we project out a 10 basis point rise in cap rate for each year the property ages, so the Cap rate may be 5.5% assuming interest rates don't budge, (probably heading higher as US Govt has to deleverage its last 40yr debt run-up, like we did between '45 and '82, and we did again btwn 1899-1920, same 30-40 pattern going back to mid-1800s)I watched all their videos/podcasts/available webinars.

Recommendations on content to watch/read to learn the essentials as a beginner?

One of the things you can do is to watch YouTube videos.