Substitute your book spend for taking local, successful investors out to breakfast - you'll make a connection for potential joint ventures, an investor to sell to and a possible source of private funding, plus you get 1.5 hours to pick someone's brain about what they've learned, all for $25!! 

I have a list of the towns I would like to source the lists from but I'm lost now.  

Local Places of Worship can be another source of assistance.

Vapors migrate from a contaminated source and you need to ascertain that the source of the contamination is confined to your property. vapors can migrate over significant distances especially if they get into sewers.

The problem is I do not have a job right now, but I do have a source of income.

Heat source is using electricity, I may consider adding a separate meter for that and let the tenant each pay their own.

Pollution to the ground water could impact neighbor's wells.

I guess i would compare it to some of the section 8 housing issues when the owner knows that the money is coming in from another source and how much the government or military is willing to pay.

This is what I would be living on as my major source of income.Rather than suspending/waiving rents for those tenants impacted by the COVID-19 crisis I recommend that New York state issue rent vouchers to cover the rent payments of those impacted.

My general deal source is my realtor friends and the MLS.In general I believe the experience of purchasing REOs varies greatly depending on the bank.