Appliance dolly (with straps) and get a small Uhaul...of course, if you can organize your moving tasks to maximize the Uhaul, it works out better, but renting a Uhaul for a few hours beats tipping it into a pick-up...in my experience, anyway...

Is it just a local school or an organization dedicated to real estate? 

So it needs to be organized but thorough.Anyone else doing this and have a good system?

They offer great courses and always have tons of new technology vendors at the shows, plus you can speak to others about their problems and solutions, there are some egos like in every organization but overall pretty friendly group 

How do you find such trustworthy people or organizations?  

You need a real respirator with replaceable cartridges (3M has a great one we use) capable of handling organic gasses and have all the windows open.

My ~$20k is a rough estimate because there wasn't a solid or organized way that I was tracking my expenses.

These are all under Texas' statutes (the Business Organizations Code).As for hard money, your local investor groups will draw HMLs. 

People starting out today who are much more organized/self-motivate/knowledge seeking (whatever you want to call it) will probably encounter BP sooner rather than later. 

I volunteer at our church.