Any thing I should read or study before jumping into this?

I have read numerous books and studied numbers of real estate, creative finance, tax, and so on, but never how the contracting business works until the past month or so.

I'm currently a student studying math/chemistry and work part time as a tutor.

I am surprised by the CoreLogic study from 2017. 

I have been reading books, studying online, going to seminars in my area, and I am just starting to listen to all the podcast on the site.Although I live in NY, the market is extremely difficult to get into as a newbie investor, as most would know.

Where you study for the test doesn't really matter.

I'm Andrew Geib, currently I'm working as a lean six sigma engineer based in the Aurora/Naperville area. 1) Favorite real estate book: just picked up Rich Dad Poor Dad for the first time2) Favorite non-real estate book: Freakonomics3) Advice for new investors: seeing as I am a new to real estate, get started now rather than later. 4) Hobbies: cars, I autocross my daily driver whenever I can, I'm resorting a classic mustang, and I frequently go to car shows all across Chicagoland. 

Once you're under contract, then you can fine tune the numbers before your study period is up.

I am new to BP also new to real estate investing I've read up and studied a bit and I'm ready to jump in.

I'm still in the process of studying up, so I can have somewhat of an idea of what I am doing.