I'd recommend looking at some online schools.  

I'm especially interested in someone with experience in 2-4 unit multifamily properties, but any tips on solid professionals with neighborhood experience would be great.Thanks! 

Leverage.See how they like taking the bus to work and the liquor store.

They just "prefer" to bank online.

I plan on contacting FSBOs and FRBOs listed online and would like to scrap phone numbers from the listings and contact them via VM using Slydial.

Hope all goes well for you and I hope you would be willing to share some tips with me with your experience on this project. 

As it stands my knowledge is pretty basic, just what I've learned browsing the forums and gleaming through materials online, but I'm a quick study and want to really make an effort My specific areas of interest are wholesaling, buy and hold for rent purposes, and flipping once I become knowledgeable enough about the Philadelphia market. 

Many big box hardware stores will change the brands they carry literally every single year making it impossible to find what you had installed the year before.

You can also look for the Landlord Tenant Handbook on-line published by the HCIDLA. 

I have been browsing duplexes and triplexes online, to see what the market looks like now.