So I'm a newbie in Real Estate Investing and Real Estate in general, my current focus is to get out of my fast food job and get into a job related to real estate. 

You can buy food if you'd like.

Tie your identity to daily action and growth.  

@Jacob MichalI use this webpage to find probate leads:https://adtech.dailyjournal.com/legalads/To begin go to Search ~ then for Category select PROBATE ~ for Newspaper select DAILY COMMERCE ~ on the lower right is the blue Search button.From is the date range you can change prior to today as there are currently more than 100 published probate listings for this month for Los Angeles county.For each Order No you select the publication will list the county courthouse address to view each probate file.This is the same webpage I use to view new free probate leads for Sacramento and San Francisco counties. 

If I were you, I would hire a tax consultant with experience in this area and does it daily. 

All of the above is just food for thought, but you also mention perhaps moving here to Buffalo which reduces the challenges if you’re into self-managing. 

Get set up on hotsheets and study them daily.

As an example, if I have 10 properties each bringing in $1000/month net for a total of $10k net monthly REI income, and I want to reinvest 80% of these earnings directly back into my investing but use the remaining 20% to fund daily & monthly living expenses, how is it technically done?

That's the only fool proof way to stay out of court.That being said, wholesalers violate the law on a daily basis in Oregon.

My approach is long term buy and hold as part of a legacy portfolio I can turn over to my daughter when I am ready to become worm food.