I recommend to continue getting active on the forums, but also taking the time to listen to some podcast episodes, I am pretty sure they hit on tips for finding your first deal.I am also in the middle of reading Brandon Turner's "The Book on Rental Property Investing" and it has some good stuff in it that I hadn't picked up on over the past few years of self-education.

OK Dane, my advice is to  first determine your monthly budget for marketing and make sure it is long term focused.

Should I get a separate bank account, is there an application, pick the money up or have them deposit it to an account??

From that I determined that debt to income ratio of 2.61 that is my every dollar of expense I had 2.61 dollars coming in to service that expense. 

I've searched up and down BP and the worldwide web; I am trying to determine if serving my month to month section 8 tenant with a notice to quit sufficient.

Hey BP!I am currently working to become a real estate investor. I came across Bigger Pockets and was instantly intrigued, not only by the way they explained real estate investing to a newbie, but by the challenge it ...

I have an FHA on my 3 family, and wouldn't be able to pick up this property for less than 20% down.

I seem to get stuck trying to determine the cap rate in markets I am not too familiar with and was wondering if there was a source out there to look up? 

We are now in "search" mode, we have created various versions of our own Cash Flow calculators, Cash on Cash calculators and have determined our goals for what we would like the house to produce in order for it to be something we would like to consider.

How are commissions on commercial sales determined, does the Seller or Buyer or a combination of them pay commissions or is it just part of the offer negotiations?