It will take time especially if you are going to take the old fashioned way of buying a list of distressed homes from your local court house or driving around looking for possible vacant homes.I actually bought A Simple Man's Guide to Real Estate Investing by Bill Vaughn, it is about $100 and provides free email coaching.

Just good old fashioned knobs and push buttons.

There's no shame in that and it's definitely still investing in the market, both by riding the price appreciation we're experiencing while also leveraging someone else to hopefully pay a portion of your mortgage. 

Dont go to that university(unless you have a full ride scholarship).

I know the process may not always be easy but I want a title company that knows what they are doing and can help me close in timely fashion.

Today my focus is on studying real estate investing, networking, and taking my investing game to the next level by BRRRR'ing some properties in San Francisco this year.In my free time I love to surf, work out, read, ride my motorcycle, snowboard, and play xbox with my friends (yeah I'm a nerd like that). 

I met a young single blond girl who lives in a house north of Delmar with a group of friends because her share of the rent is something like $300/mo and she can ride her bike to CWE.

I guess what I really need is a local mentor who I could ride along with and see a transaction.

I offered him a ride together we headed about forty minutes to downtown Austin.

Also, are you doing a repositioning on the asset or are you simply purchasing to extract cashflow and ride with it as-is?