My quick tips/advice:Get a HELOC on your home before you move if you have some equity established in it.  

Just a quick background.

I'd say my hardest lesson learned is overestimating how quickly a new property will reach my revenue goals. 

Quick question if a property purchase at a tax sale and I did preservation improvement on it paid taxes 2 yrs and had possession can I get certificate transfer over from family member name too mines without redemption period starting all over or do it remain same after transfer?

Add the other items and you'll, very quickly, get into the $40k - $50k range.

Not much interest in slick talkers, shuck-n-jive pitches, or get-rich-quick schemers...but that’s just me

So...Electronic statementsQuarterly inspection reports (with pictures)Quick and reliable responses to my inquires. 

Thanks for the quick reply, Julie - very encouraging to hear that it's an avenue worth pursuing.I used to be concerned about my personal furniture (which is not inexpensive) but after I added up the opportunity costs of NOT utilizing my primary residence as a STR in my absence, all my concerns about it vanished.

If you haven't heard of them already some quick rules of thumb are to look for properties that rent for 1% or more than the purchase price and generally you should expect about 50% of your rental income to go back out in expenses like property management, capital expenditure, maintenance, vacancy etc.

I went to  a Rich Dad Poor Dad workshop in NYC, thought they would teach me what I want.