Regarding to the books and materials, just pick and read.

Definitely file your Schedule E's when you do your taxes, that way you can provide them to the bank and hopefully get more borrowing power since they will use a percentage of that income towards your other income to determine your loan amount. 

That is how I started working full time and picking these up one at a time.

She loves going to garage sales to pick up good quality furniture.

I pick the largest office and question the officer experience. 

Uncle Dan’s catered my wedding and I am about to go pick up a smoked turkey from there.

Any real estate investors in the Hyattsville, Washington DC area that I can pick their brain on obtaining that first property.

I would like some help in evaluating a hotel, determining what to consider when evaluating and making a decision on purchase price, and I would like to know what sort of "tricks" to look out for. 

This is the number that determines whether property investing is a asset or a liability.

Anyone can go pick up a crap property and try to pawn it off on someone else, which is where the lack of trust comes in.