After you feel confident in understanding real estate as an investment vehicle, decide how you want to begin your investing journey.

I am considering getting into this space (looking at some courses), but worried that its too late, and that deep local market knowledge/understanding of buyers/connection with developers etc is required to make this work, which only incumbent/long term investors will have and would be hard for a new entrant starting from scratch to catch-up...is my hypothesis valid in your opinion ?

Not an attorney but it's my understanding a notice of lien must be filed prior but why not just pay it and get the issue resolved 

They yield results, but I understand a lot of other people have jobs where they cannot spend so much time on their listings. 

You don't need to know everything to get started; you need a foundation to build on, and the rest will come through experience and then refining your education.You can build a basic understanding of investing in 3-6 months.

Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "rear of my assets."...

Hi Lenders, currently in the market for a cash flow management tool to help organize payoffs and broker commissions to get a better understanding of how many more loans I can fund on a given month.

I understand that they would all be considered unrelated even though two of them are cousins. 

If I’m the buyer the seller must acknowledge, in writing that they understand I have no liability on the note and that they retain liability.