You could become the bookkeeper for a real estate or property management company.

For the OP... except for tax season and turnovers (less than 5%), maybe an hour a month, mostly around banking and bookkeeping, the occasional phone call, and rare craziness.

A business law book, principles of real estate, accounting 101 will get you through bookkeeping, a personal finance text talks about use of money, get a used managerial accounting book (it deals with management decissions in concept.....it answers all the questions of should I use a loan or my cash) a basic business finance text (101/102) explains income streams, notes, bonds, capital financing, etc.

You might want a tax + bookkeeping person + a wealth advisor.

(We have 15 units.)I also maintain vendor files.I keep reference materials in separate files/notebooks/drawers for Washington Landlord-Tenant Law, Housing Authority (Section 8), Police/Sheriff Partnering, Fire Marshall-Fire Safety, Tenant Screening Resources, Utility Companies, Rental Association, Legal Counsel, Partnership Minutes, Education Courses we took, etc.I keep a notebook record of standard materials we use, written descriptions including paint samples, flooring samples, etc. with some photo examples.We store and organize most of the property photos in the computer in iphoto.We produce our marketing materials in the computer, such as business cards and advertisements.We keep hard copies of the bank statements, credit card statements, mortgage statements and purchase agreements in binders and archive them at the end of the year.Our bookkeeping is on the computer in Quicken, which allows us to easily look things up, categorize and send electronically to our tax preparer at tax time.Our tax preparer files electronically, keeps an archive record and each year delivers to us hard copies of our tax documents in a labeled folder, which we store in a filing cabinet.We also have a small library of reference books, magazines, newsletters, etc.That's most of it.

(streamlined accounting/bookkeeping)Some TurboTax during this time of yearThat's about it for me.

Here are courses that will get you started; Macro and Micro Economics Personal Finance Business Finance Accounting (101 bookkeeping and 102 business accounting) Debate and Speech (two different aspects but both in speech.

She has 2 people who work under her, who handle all of the things like utilities, insurance, paperwork, book keeping/payroll, sending wires, entering listings we do ourselves/taking calls from potential buyers, manage the rentals that we do have (we have about 10), going to the bank as needed, running errands etc So basically 3 people who are a part of my overhead.Other than that we have 3 general contractors, my main agent, a couple other agents, and several wholesalers we work with.

That builder was a bit too sloppy with his bookkeeping for John. 

Some times, investors use a non-disqualified person or bookkeeper to hold retainers for both parties and make check writing easier.