I would like to set it up so that I can basically hand reports with receipts to my tax guy and be done with it. 

I work all 58 counties and know many of the judges; they hate to sign SP lien orders, leaving very limited statutory provisions. 

Here are a few I recommend: "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Roberto Kiyosaki; "Set for Life" by Scott Trench; "The Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing" by Spencer; "The BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginners Guide" found here on BP; "The Book on Rental Property Investing" by Brandon Tuner.

Ok your responses are from lenders that want to make money lending HM.HM is basically not appropriate for any kind of longer term hold  ONLY fix and flip and only if you really know what your doing.I would be very cautious borrowing money..better set up for you and safety is going to be a JV deal.. where the PL is your equity partner and is in it long term with you if its rentals you want to start to acquire.

Be sure that you have lots of time and a good set of drawings so that you can make sure your sub-contractors are doing the work correctly.

The initial training is a 12 week program where each new investor will be told to set up an infrastructure of a legal entity, business cards, phone numbers, web pages and miscellanea, to pretend to be a real estate investor, because all this, will not really make anybody a real estate investor.

  , and I set out on a goal for the year to meet with at least one individual or couple each month who is passionate about their real estate journey.

I asked the clerk if it was common for the contractor to not show up and her response was...most have outstanding warrants and leins and won't come near the courthouse.Not sure what you are out but it might be better to limit your losses and eat the money. 

College Hill by Geneva has a bit more upside, but still limited by proximity to things/school district. 

So I trade risk related to out-of-state investment, with risk to hold huge leverage in over-bloated market in tenet friendly state, but I am losing opportunity to build a skill-set of out-of-state investing which will help me to scale faster and be flexible in the future.If we buy cheaper house but further from the city, we will spend a lot more time in the commute(3 days in the office mandate), in this case we will trade time(commute) for money(affordability) it makes it not an investment, but another work.