Any advice on educational courses or material that would help me learn multifamily as someone just getting started?

I also purchased these while residing in CA!

It also gave me the chance to experiment with short-term rentals before transitioning to a long-term hold, reinforcing my strategy for growing a real estate portfolio.

This is an investment property of the seller, not their primary residence.

If your willing to do so, you can live in the casita and then rent out the main home and have your tenant pay the majority/all of the mortgage (depending on what type of deal you find obviously). 

In some cases, after running the numbers, I’ve even faced potential negative returns, causing me to miss out on promising deals here in South Florida.That brings me to my question: I currently own two homes—one is my primary residence, and the other is a rental property.

It's up to you if you're client will take these consolidated articles at face value or if they need an in-depth analysis then you'll have to go with subscriptions.Another recommendation I got is to follow authors from the main news publication sites that publish real estate market trends.

-how many bathrooms per resident have you found to be successful?

Best advice to you would be to use that VA loan as many times as you can and buy primary residences for a year, rent them out and then buy something else with the VA!

What is better for me to work with you?