Brandon/Heather Turner's book on managing rental properties via BP Bookstore and Landlording on Autopilot by Mike Butler should be mandatory for all new rental investors.Also take referrals with a grain of salt and consider the source that's providing them.

Total Money Makeover" should be available at your local library and probably in stock at any bookstore.

IE a bookstore on a college campus.

There is more knowledge and real world experience on this site than an entire B&N bookstore business section.

I was just in the bookstore and, as always, had to feed my addiction by buying a book.

We have a bookstore and barber-shop downstairs and an apartment upstairs.

(I cleaned out the bookstores shelf on RE investing!)

wholesaling is not a basic RE concept or function of real estate.You may not meet the school requirements, but I bet you can go to the book stor and find the text for RE 101/102.Here are some basic concepts to understand; What is RE?

His answer was to bring money to the table or offer some specialized knowledge or time.I began searching for information by stopping by the local book store and also the web for anything I could learn about investing.

You can go meet others and get involved but that's not an education, it's an experience, it could be good or bad information.Start with a formal approach to RE, get a text book for the state real estate exam, text book on RE 101/102 from some college book store.