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Gary Keller's "how-to" guide  "The Millionaire Real Estate Agent Guide" By the way, Keller Williams has an excellent education to get started.

This is a great forum with very knowledgeable members that will help to guide you in the right direction.There are a few self-contained guides that you can access here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guidesI really like the alerts feature that can quickly guide you to current topics that might interest you: http://www.biggerpockets.com/alerts

This will help guide you to the best cities based on your expectations.

DM me and I'll guide you to more resources.

And be able to write off the trip :)

Here are a few I recommend: "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Roberto Kiyosaki; "Set for Life" by Scott Trench; "The Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing" by Spencer; "The BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginners Guide" found here on BP; "The Book on Rental Property Investing" by Brandon Tuner.

Last year I was in Prague for 2 months while I was trying to close on new construction in FL, and i ended up having to do multiple embassy trips (which needs to be scheduled a week in advance), multiple expensive air mailing, and in the end I got back to the US and signed it there because everything was still screwed up.

The calculations always trip people up as well.

Unless there's a tripping hazard or something like that you should be fine (and even in such cases, your insurance should cover it although they might force you to address the tripping hazard).