You'll be able to maintain contact with members, which will be very helpful, and might well identify your "trusted local associate" through that channel.Books on this subject tend to be very simplistic (the subject matter is fairly simplistic), many are outdated especially pertaining to the financing landscape.

I find in dealing with commercial brokers, that even if info is on costar that I often have to reach out and confirm it anyway because it can be outdated or revised.

Oftentimes inherited tenants have below market rents and like you said they may come with baggage & you don't know if they are a good tenant.This past summer I bought a house hack with inherited tenants and it was a struggle to get the tenants to commit to move out dates & it took longer for them to leave than I had hoped.

The 3 advocates so far all have less than 20 postsI and many of people on BP have helped scores of people for free and even if they went out and made 50k of mistakes they would be even .I do not know Phil it his program and my only experience was someone sent me some videos questioning his information on HUD homes which was years outdated do to system changes within the HUD system.

So his another idea I was thinking about and would love some feedback.What about getting a commercial loan for a property that’s not falling over but just outdated and need some serious TLC and still prices under market.

Keep in mind a lot of older homes here in westchester with outdated plumbing and electrical work and plaster walls.

Yellow paper is out dated. 

I’ve search through the forums and found a few post, but most of them are a few years old, so I’m not sure if they’ve become outdated or not.

Also understand that usually motivated sellers are behind on taxes, homes are distressed and or out dated so you may not get them to make repairs or anything else due to the reason they need to sell so bad. 

The knowledge will probably be outdated  before graduation.