Right now my roster reads something like thisHow to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (I very highly recommend it; its spectacular)The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod (heard about it on the BP podcast)The Classical Liberal Arts of Trivium, an anthology compiled by John MartineauRich Dad, Poor Dad (again) by Robert KiyosakiThe Book on Investing with No (and Low) Money Down by Brandon Turner.This is a little bit more than I usually tackle at once; I like to keep my reading more focused, but all of these books are very interesting and most are pretty easy to read. 

That's the Art of War and it works for real estate investors too.Best to you Carson!

Walls get a few framed art pieces, large rooms might have a decorative tall vase with bamboo shoots in corner.

Ideally that source will tell you the type of comp - REO, shortsale, flip, etc.Finding the best comps is more art then science.

I know of folks out there thoughwho decided to learn the art of investing without banks and manage to accelerate their holdings quicker than they could ever imagine.

Art I will send you the guy we use.  

One doesn't even need a college degree to be a successful commercial broker, but I feel that the CCIM is more of a commitment to your art and craft to the profession.

Its just called simple math.The person who thought of public pensions should be hung in the town square.Sell the art. 

One of the things that I found out about him was that he had a black belt in karate, or one of the other martial arts, I can't remember which. 

I suggest that you learn the art of creative financing.