Investors make and lose money every  day and in every facet of REI! 

It's vital to learn housing metrics such as, average SFH sales price, average vacany rate, lease comparables for different properties/subdivisions.

I'm sure there's a lot of legalese behind a lot of the questions, but at the end of the day if a doctor can connect to robot in another hemisphere to conduct a vital surgery - there's no reason buying a property should involve this many moving pieces. 

Another interesting facet of your deal is that you are crossing an important lending threshold.

Your asset position also plays a vital role in getting premiere financing and rate exceptions. 

That particular perspective is held by so many people in so many different areas of business; all of which are vitally important to getting fair pay, access to "nice" houses in "good" neighborhoods, etc.

@James Luciano Seems like the next best bet is to use the Philadelphia vital records department site.

I love that real estate is so multi faceted.

Many people new to the industry are just enamored with the idea of "CRE" but there are many different facets or ways to plug in, as noted above.

Turners book on rental properties, or David's long distance investing and BRRRR books.Chris Voss - never split the difference - for negotiations and also just an interesting storyTraction - was a good book for understanding business systems and their vital role in making things easierHave you ever read Freakonomics?