Books like "Rich Dad Poor Dad" and "The Millionaire Real Estate Investor" can give good tips.

Any tips on starting off, or books that helped you in the beginning of your journey would be amazing!  

Much better responses from professionals on the Pro only forum.

Sorry for the late response!

The remaining $600 is the tenant responsibility. 

As well, he goes above and beyond for his client helping them build strategies to grow their real estate business and will even get on calls with your Accounting team so that you have alignment across your Power Team. 

While I agree that the tenant who shot a hole in your floor should be responsible for the damages, if I was the tenant below, I would want to leave, not attend a party with the person who literally could have killed me due to their incredible gross negligence.Pending legal restrictions, this would be the end of my wanting the business of the upstairs tenant.

Taking advantage of Section 121 and getting as much free cap gains as possible would be my route (Option 3), but you'll likely hear different responses from different people. 

ANd I get it they dont want to take any responsibility if something goes wrong but for me to work with an agent they need to do more..

You have a responsibility to try to rerent, but losses related to that can usually be deducted from a deposit.