I got a college education in business that emphasized real estate.  

Of course, investors often use multiple types of financing, and the "Creative Combinations" chapter emphasizes that you can mix and match various approaches to fit your deal or property.Like Turner's other books, this one is easy to read and conversational.

One of the better "motivation" books I have ever read because he emphasizes doing actual WORK which most of those books downplay in favor of dreaming and visualizing (also important but you have to do WORK).His more recent book, Be Obsessed or Be Average, is not nearly as good.

Be specific with (and emphasize) your cash-on-cash returns that you achieve. 

First of all, major retailors charge thousands for furniture and electronics they have manufactured over seas for pennies and I did emphasize on the "over priced" crappy 10k necklace zales sold me for over 1.5k that probably amounted to 40$ in gold weight. 

I'm thinking SFR, but all the BP podcasts I've been listening tend to emphasize how as a real estate investor we want to scale as much as possible.

Something I read in negotiation stuff emphasized the benefits of giving the other person perceived power, and letting them answer with a "No" lets them feel they are more in control. 

The key points that I would like to emphasize is don't over do the beginning learning process.

On equity deals, you should be--I emphasize "should be" because I can't speak for all platforms--ongoing reporting that shows all of the cash in flows and out flows, including fees.  

As I said before too, I'd REALLY REALLY emphasize that you and if you have any partners, that you check with the city of MKE as far as the work you mention this place needs and try to nail them down as to what they're going to require as far as fixing whatever in the place because one example I can give you is one home I'm soon to put on the market where it came (as an REO) with a 4 fuse fuse box and the ancient knob and tube wiring inside and while these days you really can't get ins coverage on anything with fuses, so they've been updated to breakers, you do still have a lot of knob and tube wiring around here as we have a fair amount of housing stock that's very old.