I recently went to a 3 day workshop put on by Fortune Builders.

I'm thinking more of a castle, mechanic's/inventor's workshop theme.

Local college business workshops or classes would be valuable.   

Tax AmountInsurance EstimateMaintenance EstimateManagement EstimatePURCHASE DATASales PriceRehab EstimateFINANCING DATALoan AmountInterest RateMaturity DateAmortization Length*For what it's worth, my family and I work, shop, socialize, worship, and go to school in 38122 every day. 

I have been to a couple of real estate workshops and they were very informative but each one seamed like a sells pitch to get me to pay for the next bit of information and ultimately in the end I would have to pay over 20K to get the information needed to start my business.

The courses and workshops familiarize entrepreneurs and small business owners with business plans, legal issues, marketing strategies, financial statements, small business taxes, and small business record-keeping systems. 

From there, you can attend a weekend workshop for a couple hundred dollars where they go over their fix and flip model.

My husband just taught a 3 hour workshop on "Raising Private Money" this past weekend for SJREIA, so he knows this topic very well! 

A friend of mine went to one of Robert Kiyosaki's 3-day workshops, & one of the things she shared w/ me from the seminar was this:"The best information we got was the reason to incorporate, preferably in Nevada.

I will likely go back and take one of their other workshops also.