I'm an accounting/finance professional, and my wife and I decided 3 years ago to take the plunge into real estate investing.  

As you can see I am here, ready to learn, already using the calculator, watched some videos, and will be purchasing books soon. 

How about an area with a lot of young professionals? 

prepagent.com is a good website also prep agent on YouTube is a good study guide to learn off of some of the videos are goofy/funny but I think that helps it stick to your memory.

There will always be worries and concerns, but with a professional PM company in place managing them for you then you should be fine.

Have a repair list with pictures - If you are truly gonna tell me what you think the repairs are going to cost you should have a list of repairs with some pictures and/or video showing the conditions of the property.

I would say let them apply and have them have a local professional fill out your form certifying that they require a service animal as allowed per your state regulations.

The advantages of my online course were: awesome test prep at the end of each lesson, audio of the entire course in lessons, videos with stories for lessons learned, and many tools that I use today for marketing and such.  

If you start seeing properties you like give some property managers a call to make sure you'd be able to have it professionally managed.If I had $80-120k waiting to be invested and lived in LA, NY, SF, etc.

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!