We also have a newborn and would like to remain in our current home with her at least for the next few years.I'm willing to get creative, willing to get my hands dirty (as in demo/construction, not burying bodies...). 

From there, I read Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover, but I didn't care for this book as much.

Pick up Dave Ramsey's book "The Total Money Makeover".

@Tyler Bodi 40216 is a big area and depending on where you are at in the 40216 this may be a fair deal or a not so good deal.

You give them your Arm, they devour your entire body.  

We are on track to flip at least 10 houses this year and we should make over 100k after all expenses and taxes.

standing over my dads casket looking down at his body ,realizing that someday that will be me ..dying broke without enough money in my savings to even cover my own funeral .

After graduation, I read Millionaire Next Door, Think and Grow Rich, Total Money Makeover, Personal Finance for Dummies, and The Money Book for the Young Fabulous and Broke.

If you can find a job requires a warm body, but let's you work on your own stuff from a computer, you're set!

Also, maybe by coincidence, but probably not, FINRA is the body that oversees the Registered Representative and Principal exams (Series 7, 24, 63,65)Given those facts two things jump out at me 1) any newly accredited investors will have a heavy finance, securities, trading background and will prove their knowledge through some sort of exam/certification/license that has nothing to do with being accredited, ie.