Here's a study showing that in the next 20 years, 8 states will contain 50% of the US population:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/12/in-about-20-years-half-the-population-will-live-in-eight-states/Are these states necessarily good states to invest in?

To put my question in simplest terms, would it be possible to not attend college, but to instead find the same textbooks that would be used in a specific college class, and study them, hence learning everything I would learn if I was in that class, without actually taking the class?

If you can get a copy of an appraisal, study it.

If it is walking too loud I have told tenants to work it out between them but I have had to tell tenants no powertool/workshops,  Super loud music, incessant barking, clogs/drunken shenanigans on the stairs  and kids running the hallway after quiet hours. 

Currently I’m interested and studying real estate investing!

I wanted to get recommendations on resources to do a market study or consultants who can do a great job to answer this question.  

I use Huntwise Pro to find all boundaries (spent $700. on one survey only for the surveyor to tell me my stakes were right on line with his tools within 6 ")  and study county maps and easements, which ranchers and the few part time cabin owners  out there just make their own easement/roads  and everybody, the few people around, like myself with an illegal easement on one of the 40 acre properties I bought apart from a tax lien  accept to be accommodating to neighbors in rough territory where you cannot traverse the legal easements on the perimeters so therefore, would have no access to your property.   

I'm at the stage in my career where there is pressure to study for and take the PE exam. 

I worked one of my clients at construction business and studied them for fix and flip.

This fitness center had $2,407,081.37 in first year tax savings.If a Cost Segregation Study had not been performed, the $7.8 Million Fitness Center in Vineland, New Jersey built in 2020 would’ve only had first-year depreciation of $198,300.