Chris Mason,This is definitely a trial and error for me.

I'll start combing Youtube as well @Rich Baer, which works especially well for me because I am a very visual learner! 

thank you I appreciate that now I might look into different fields and see what's best for me right now

It took about 4 months for me to get through them all, but each one contains valuable information.

In some areas land contracts or contracts for deeds are common forms of seller financing.

Hey William just started here on bp from marlton lakes, have 2 single family's currently and just got my approval for a heloc for the next 2 but I would like to check out that event maybe keep the heloc in reserve if there are other options for me.

Not a specific book but podcasts and discussion threads on how to compute CoC, what expenses to account for and estimating rehab costs were the most valuable learnings for me. 

After agreeing to put in the offer for me, then getting the address, then asking me for my bid amount, she suddenly "remembered" that she was already "going" to put in an offer for "an investor she had been working with for years and you know it would just be a type of conflict of interest if she put in offers for both of us and don't you see that's why she just couldn't help me." 

Best thing for me

We've exchanged emails about terms and conditions and the application form he sent me was very questionable!