None of what I said should be discouraging per se, but anyone new and reading should take it more as a disclaimer.

It won't really teach you repair estimating but that's not a bad thing per se.

It's not an RE book per se but check out "The 4-hour Workweek" by Timothy Ferriss

There are several wholesalers in SE Michigan--a few of them are quite good.

I need a business structure to reduce the SE tax and S-Corp income tax.Can I invest capital in a development LLC as PASSIVE partner together with all other passive partners, then have my LLC S-corp as manager - I'm the manager of the LLC S-Corp.

Mitchell Bernier  The reason that a farmer rents his land to his farming LLC is that he pays SE taxes on his farming income, but rental income is not subject to rental income. 

And not subject to SE taxes?

The reason behind this is your LLC is a different legal entity than you - so when you represent your LLC you are not representing yourself pro se, you are representing this other entity even if you are the sole member of the LLC.

In the SE this is not the case unless you are very very good at tenant selection, which is more art than recipe.

While not a hoarder per se, she could not emotionally separate from her dead mother's and dead husband's belongings.