Since im a rookie at this I'm kind of having trouble on where I should start.

Bottom line:  Your margins should be able to withstand a $10K error that would cover mechanicals.  

Learning the ropes through trial and error, insight from a friend who has forged a trail, and now through BP. 

I KNOW that this is a profession that can help me to become become financially independent, but I do not know where to turn and I don't have much money nor can I afford to just blow money in the wind from error, so if you have a cheaper route for me to turn to it will be HIGHLY accepted and appreciated!

I'm still a rookie here myself and also live in Orlando.

Well I am not really interested in doing a fix and flip becuase there isn't a lot of room for error, plus just getting into investing I feel isn't the place to start.

My error.  

After 6 months of trial and error, the stress became too much for most of us.

This is the ideal, safe place to make some calculation errors.

To make a long story short, he made a classic error and commingled funds a few years prior and opened him up to liability.