I've read books, watched videos and read through the forums but I've quickly learned that the only way to know if this is viable is to do it, so I'm doing it! 

Hello everyone.Since this is my first post on biggerpockets i would like to introduce myself.My name is Emiel Sleegers.I am currently 20 years old and originally from the Netherlands.When i was 19 years old i managed to drop out of school and move to the united kingdom to work full time for a multi million company (my biggest achievement so far)I started to actively look into real estate for about a month ago and i'm still in the progress of reading books,watching videos and podcasts etc.So i had a few quick questions that i did not yet found in the books etc.1.

You are missing the most important thing you can buy yourself,an education.You need to meet with professional wholesalers who have been doing this successfully for some time and ask them how they do it.Apprentice yourself to them for free doing their ground pounding work learning the business as a young college student intern would.Learn how to put together a large list of cash buyers and flippers who need the properties you find to sell them.Learn how to carve out a good territory to farm that has several homes sold in the last two years for top dollar prices and sold the fastest (less than 30 days).Learn how to use postal workers,utilities people,and others to spot bad houses that might be able to be bought cheap.Use high school students involved in sports teams or band to seed your farm with cards and fliers door to door at every property and give them a tax deductible donation to their groups.Promise them a bigger wad of cash if you sell a house they bird dog for you(tax deduction!).

Does anyone have any recommendations on books, videos, websites, etc. for me to self-learn and get up to speed on the entitlement process?

I just figured it would probably be a more constructive hobby than playing video games or something that can suck up money just as well.

what a great post and like @Gene Chandler stated we both did a video on who we would JV with.

I remember watching a video back when I first started in the business that said, "You don't get rich selling real estate.

Go and check out a few videos on how to replace windows.

Verify all repairs via pics or even video.

But something I have noticed is that the majority of video's, blog posts, articles are about NPN investing.