The best book to start with is probably the Ultimate Beginners Guide on this website or The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller.

I have read The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, by Gary Keller, and Bigger Pockets own, The Book on Rental Property Investing, by Brandon Turner.

For example, buying a $30k property with a $130k ARV in a great rental market like suburban Dallas has a completely different answer than buying a $30k property in a typical Detroit neighborhood, or Gary Indiana.- assumptions behind your $1300/mo expenses.  

Gary Swank, Realtor with RE/MAX Real Estate Solutions:Hi Scott, While I do not live in South hills, I am very familiar with that target market area.

No matter how little experience you have, there is something you can help with.As for learning, if you haven't already read it, I really like the book 'The Millionaire Real Estate Investor' by Gary Keller.

It looks like @Gary Parilis gave a great summary, an touched on some very important parts of setting up and maintaining a Checkbook IRA/LLC.

--Gary

I've been doing REI for 16 years, have followed several different guru's and Chris Chico's and Gary Boomershine's REIVault system is second to none!

Gary and Mr.

The appraiser is Gary Crabtree and he produces "The Crabtree Report".