:) I'm yet to read and watch through a bunch of materials available on this site, but I now confident that everyone here is willing to help!

Capital Confidence Barometer by Ernst & Young

Have confidence in what your doing and try to create win-win situation for all the parties involved.

Get a pre-approval from a lender first, so you can be confident with your borrowing power during your search. 

So I feel pretty confident working with people in a sales capacity, but I'll be the first to admit that marketing and sales are different disciplines - what sales courses are you familiar with/would you recommend?

@Stephanie DobbsHi Stephanie, thanks for the vote of confidence :-)Sometimes I'm not sure if it's a good point or not to do the work myself?  

For all of these reasons, we felt confident that if we could get it for the right price, it would be worth the risk to bid without seeing the inside.We've been outbid on 3 properties in the last 3 weeks, so we didn't go in with very high hopes of winning.

Imagine being able to say, since I've managed a $100 million asset, I'm confident I can manage a $300k single family home for you.

As long as you are confident in your hospitality skills and interrior design, you should have a successful rental.

Although I still have so much more to learn and experience on my REI path, I'm confident that I can reap the financial benefits of becoming licensed and purchasing my own properties.