For managing time, David Allen's Getting Things DoneFor managing your business, the E-Myth by Michael Gerber.For a clear-eyed look at how money and markets work, the Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham (it's a slog but it's an education all by itself)For actually looking at properties,  J Scott's book on Flipping Real Estate (it's a BP book and it's awesome) .  

Keep in mind that dead equity is the most expensive route to purchasing artificial cash flow.

The appraisal is artificially high, so I'm getting good money from it.2.

Your time and efforts have value, and if you gift such value to the IRA by performing services, you are effectively making un-documented contributions to the IRA and artificially magnifying the tax sheltering, which is why this is prohibited.The alternatives in the NPN space are to joint venture with other parties or use some kind of a note broker who is doing the workouts.

I've heard that advice a lot -- to go out and talk to people and see the market -- but I still feel as though I don't know anything about the subject to be able to ask intelligent (or any) questions or even understand the information I'd be taking in.

Sure, you can spend days drawing lines that connect boxes on some Donald Trump level real estate empire org chart in an effort to gain anonymity and avoid liability, but, at the end of the day, what protects business owners is adequate insurance and acting intelligently."

Don't get me wrong, I've closed a few of these (in these cases the appraisal report came back only a bit different from what the agent/buyer described), and had a bunch die after the appraisal came back (when the report is VASTLY different from what the agents/buyer said to me, which is the norm), but due to systemic unreliability of information my position is that the price of a definitive yes/no is an FHA appraisal fee.Make sure you're working with a lender that isn't artificially restrictive, get it under contract, and get an appraisal going.

Finding, acquiring, and operating parks is not easy, but with dedication, a conservative approach, and intelligent decisions, this is one of the most recession resistant strategies that exists.

It's a contender for me.In all my recent searches I'm impressed with the amount of A.I. or higher level of intelligence is built into systems now. 

No intelligent seller is going to take a property off the market (especially in a hot market) when the buyer has $1, $10, $100 skin in the game.