Your interpretation implies that I'm saying be dishonest unless challenged which is not what I was trying to convey and my post dealt with a lot more than what you gleaned.

I've gleaned an incredible amount of info but I don't think I've ever seen this answered.If I found a deal, in much the same way any other investor would, lets say I could pick up a SF home for 55k, and it's worth 100k, and it needed say 15k worth of repair, so I hit the target for a house that's going to be worth investing in,Would I be able to purchase that home with an FHA secured loan?

There is a lot of information to be gleaned from those, and you can listen to them while you sit on the Dan Ryan, going nowhere...A local investment group is a really good idea, there is one on the north side (I think) that is hosted (?)

Trusts and corporations are creatures of *state law*, and snippets of information that investors have received or gleaned from their own state practices will most likely not apply to your own.

Podcasts are a GREAT way to glean off of a variety of paths to real estate investing and how each person got started.

I read his book, and while some of it, no surprise, was a bit extreme, I gleaned some valuable information that I've taken with me into my investing world.  

We were forced to quickly learn the ins and outs of the local court, evicting 5 residents, and starting the process in several other cases, prompting the tenants to leave.Key lessons gleaned during the first year were:1)To attract good tenants, you need to have attractive properties.

Stay at the firm, not just because of the contacts you'll make, but because you'll have a pretty significant steady income behind you to catch you when you inevitably stumble, because you'll be able to glean knowledge from kindred spirits and because you need health insurance (I just threw in that law one, but it's valid these days):).  

I've only got 2 properties (3 units) and am very much novice, but what I've gleaned from Podcasts, Books, and experience:1) First step is to figure out your goals. 

Biggest thing with land is just seeing if it is as valuable as everyone thinks it is.I would glean so much information talking to real estate department heads for the region for various types of businesses.Typically for a corner pharmacy pays the most, followed by national gas stations, then national banks, dollar stores and restaurants will not typically pay corner money.