Find someone at a bank that fully grasps what you are trying to do and who works for an institution that does these types of loans.  

If you are flipping you should be able to inspect current projects and get a firm grasp of the kind of work they do

I have no idea how a subject to works, but I think I grasp a bit of it. 

I am an investment analyst as a day job so I feel I have a pretty good grasp of the numbers, and after running the numbers on the types of home prices I am seeing, it would be difficult to even be cash flow positive with how high home prices, mortgage rates, and demand are right now. 

For experience, I've bought my current primary residence single family home and I used to volunteer at the housing court, so I've got a good grasp of landlord tenant law in my area.

Also, if anyone has a better grasp of the Binghamton university student off campus layout, any input would be great!

This, and another conversation with an investor friend of mine, made me realize that it is all within our grasp, and most everything is fixable.

linkThis is an amazing TED talk that really resonated with me in my continuing journey. Fact of the matter is, I hear of way too many people relying on everything tech however, they don't want to go out and make physi...

I do have a decent grasp of home pricing in the area, I would say Redfin is a good online resource for doing a casual comp of a property, it's at least good enough to tell you if there might be something to a deal.I would be incredibly hesitant to flip remotely, I would want a stakeholder of some kind in place to manage the project and ensure work is done in a timely manner.

The basics are not hard to learn and it doesn't take that much time to grasp the understanding of why and how things are done.Then you can select what area of real estate is best for you, but trying to do just one thing you'll be like the horse with blinders on passing by opportunities.