Decima has neat work on investing in fixxer uppers, Larry Loftis has a popular title on duplexes, triplexes and quads, Berges on apartments, even the older Robert Irwin stuff can be good for starters, and many more...I would, however, steer away from some of the recent bestseller self help type titles (unless you need the motivation) and focus on the more practical guidance.

Caution Will Rogers, if you have a Realtor involved, like a listing agent, and it is contrued that the agent is suggesting that a buyer go to any lender, that can be "steering" and is illegal.

Hope that steers you in the right direction.

I have never purchased a property before and the mortgage guy seems to want to steer me towards buying this property as my private property, which I am against because I do not want to live in it.He said it will give me more options in the future, obviously it would give me the option to do an FHA.

I don't think many teens are equipped to answer that question and merely take the path they think they are supposed to or are steered to. 

This would be my first property ever and taking action steered me onto an unexpected path of overseas real estate.  

But on the first couple deals, I would steer clear.

On deals i have been in with parks, there have been seller financed notes, park owned homes, skid steers, laundromats, apartments , houses etc, cars, vending, etc and as long as the rest of the deal pencils out , you just try and figure out a way to make it work with both parties being ok and it not being a significant hinderance on the transaction. 

My advice, especially for  OOS investors, would be to steer clear of S8.

There isn't a big "You're my competition so I'm going to try to steer you wrong" attitude.Action is better than observation....