#1 Tip: Assume everything is twice as hard as you think, but it's twice as rewarding once stuff starts churning 

Just weigh the risk/reward.

It's awesome, rewarding, and noble to help your clients reach their goals. 

This will be rewarded in the long-run so focus on analyzing deals, running your numbers, doing due diligence, and stay unemotional.. you will succeed over the long run.Hope this helps.I'm in CT as also and there are a lot of great meet-ups so I recommend finding one near you and attending those regularly as well.

After numerous complaints, the owner was fined, and had to evict the tenants.

I'm also gathering that tenant screening will be key and I have seen numerous articles on that here on BP that I will be reviewing over and over again.

I would like to find something with modest risk/reward as not losing my cash is more important than a substantial ROI.

Risk vs reward, I guess?

Such as study real estate 5 hours a week, call 100 sellers a week, analyze 25 deals a week, visit 5 properties a week, drive for dollars for 5 hours a week, flip one house every 3 months, etc...3) Read numerous books on real estate, self-development, business, and entrepreneurship.

I have completed numerous BRRRR projects.