Learn about your intended niche/strategy, so you have a good grasp on best practices in whatever area you are thinking about: Flipping, Wholesaling, Rentals, Tax Liens, Notes, Single Families, Small Multi families, large multifamilies. 

Ammon and Travis thank you both for your insight.Ammon to answer your questions I would like to focus on cashflow and as for calculating costs and things for rentals I feel I have a fairly good grasp of what needs to be done considering the abundance of the information age and I'm becoming pretty adept in google.

This is very difficult for some new investors to grasp but this is the best and fastest way to control undervalued property.The person who signs your offer will call you and thank you for solving their problem.  

You are right many people do reference them on the site, I hope I could clear up the confusion I also carried at one time.Check out yellowletters.com to get a better grasp of the idea.

He had been audited 12 times and all filings had been accepted as filed.I listened as he spouted off more information on creative uses of IRA's, 1031 exchanges, and other things, knowing I would not grasp 90% of the information he shared that night.  

Gaining some basic understanding will help you grasp this concept that is fundamental to running your business.

This will also assist with determining if there are areas in the big picture which I may personally desire to pursue for licensing.Once my basic grasp of the picture is more firm, I'll work towards things like sheriff sales, tax sales, county auctions, etc.

Now that should be a good one folks, Dawn seems to me to be full of energy, strives to do things ethically and profitably, she has a good grasp of accounting that helps her I'm sure.

I am not a financial planner, however I have set up my (our) retirement account, so I have a good grasp of what you should be considering. 

I've got a good grasp of the big picture of real estate, I've been a part of various real estate groups as well as read/listened to many books/audiobooks on real estate.