If you are worried about a deal then analyze it at break even and at your required rate of return.

Analyze as many deals as it takes to find the one that you feel comfortable with, then dive in.

Now after reading the ABC's of Real Estate Investing I would love to really dive into analyzing buildings with 4-30 units to practice and maybe find a solid deal.  

I suggest going PRO, listening to the hundreds of Podcast hours available, catch up on past Webinars that may interest you, and get to analyzing deals using the investment calculators. 

To speed up the process you want to begin analyze deals daily so you can spot a good deal quickly.

If so your current agent should be able to analyze properties to suit your needs or I'd be happy to help you out.

.)-- Continue to analyze deals that you can house hack until you have over 3.5% saved for the down payment.  

I'm using the Rental Property calculator to analyze a duplex where I plan to live in one unit and rent the second. 

I took a deeper dive, and listened to may of the podcast episodes that Sean had put out, as well as the BP podcast episodes where the various methods of wholesalers were revealed in interview after interview.I found many similarities among what I'd read and heard on the podcasts:Direct Mail is a very popular way to goYou'll likely need to spend thousands in marketing dollars (most likely using yellow letters and postcards) to get the deals coming in to youOnce you get one deal, the rest snowballCommit to one marketing strategy, bandit signs may work but they tend to be the least favored here on BP (due to their "uglying up a neighborhood" and the fact that many times they are illegal and get removed)So I get the general gist of this but the questions I still have unanswered are:How does one know what is the right legal language to put on contracts?  

Sorry, I was trying to understand exactly what you are asking so I can give a proper answer... if I have one lol.You can always use the deal calculator/analyzer provider on the site to check if it seems like a great deal.you can find it here  https://www.biggerpockets.com/buy-and-hold-calculator