So, just a few hints to get you started.For one, you've found a really good resource in bigger pockets.

I've said it before, if someone were giving even a hint at wrong information about me, it wouldn't take 2 seconds before I defended myself and proved that they were lying.

And hinted at another - race.http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?

There is enough information here to make an encyclopedia on real estate investing @Joshua Dorkin ...hint hint, JK!

The psychology of these 3 day pitch meetings if you don't know what they're doing is this...Supposedly they are giving away free training to implement but they're holding back.And they are "conditioning you very subtly" over those period of 3 days.I've seen this for over 30 years and are fairly immune to their psychological devices.I really believe that "anything of real value" that they're saying can be found here at BiggerPockets.There's so many distractions in real estate investing, there is always a "new shiny object", always "some very urgent and important thing to learn".If more people would just focus on one strategy, or get a coach that's reliable and proven, and listen to that coach and not focus on other things, chances are they would create some profitable business, and be happier and not confused.I think wholesaling and retailing- rehabbing is not a good place for many people.I think learning how to talk to sellers and offering them a cash offer and a terms offer is the way to get started.Terms offers include subject to, wraparound mortgages, lease options, installment sales on free and clear houses, and more.

The other neat thing is that, as your number hint, in a couple of years, once you have duplex management down pat, you can get economy of scale--maybe when one of the others in the neighborhood go up for sale (you can really get scale and efficiency with a nearby one).

You will likely never speak to them.There is a hint of mixing in Seller financing here but I am going to leave that along as we are struggling with the basics.

Yes and dropping hints puts your lender in a professional  pinch, I suggest you not say a thing and if you're guy is in Lee Summit, he could well end up with it anyway.

(Hint: NO ONE EVER "saved" their way to wealth!

When I had a similar situation, the tenants had hinted that they might move out too.