CA RE license a few years ago.Worked in journalism for a couple of years.

Of course, history is not right all the time.Here's an excerpt from a Harvard Journal of Housing Study:  The Causes and Consequences of House Price MomentumA puzzling and prominent feature of housing markets is that aggregate price changes are highly positively autocorrelated, with a one percent annual price change correlated with a 0.30 to 0.75 percentchangeinthesubsequentyear(CaseandShiller,1989).1 

Typically the local business journal will provide a comprehensive list of what is upcoming weekly.  

Since then, I've read:"The ABC's of real Estate Investing" by Ken McElroy"Real Estate Advantages" by Sharon Lechter and Garrett SuttonI'm currently reading "The Wall Street Journal - Complete Real-Estate Investing Guide Book" by David CrookI found a local Real Estate Investing Association that I will join after attending a few meetings first.I found that the more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.

I'm done in May 2014... only because I'm on the gaming law journal and that was a two year commitment.

Relatively new to BP, just joined the 90 day journal mastermind & going to check meetup.com for any local meet ups!

Using the output of the spreadsheet, I do an annual journal entry, from a journal entry template, where the interest paid, principal pay down, escrow account, expenses from escrow are paid and booked, taken out of the holding account.

Check out the Denver Business Journals list of top brokerages.

I must assume you know your GAAP to answer, else your accountant should give you the journal entries.Are you 'the buyer' or 'the seller' for question 1.

Start with a base and keep a journal of what wording attracts more of what you want.