Detroit, MichiganPercentage of mortgages underwater: 34.4 percentMedian home value: $161,300With 34.4 percent of homes having negative equity, Detroit has by far the highest rate of homes underwater in the study.

I had studied real estate investing for 2 years prior to this and hit the wall - no money, no credit, no confidence. 

Is it worth doing a cost segregation study on a Mobile Home Park held in your Self Directed Solo 401(k)?

When you pick the largest mortgage bank in the country that's known for having "meh" pricing to fund the largest mortgage marketing budget in the country with hundreds of script-reading LOs in cubicles who have all signed (& this is lawful) do-not-compete/do-not-broker agreements, yes commercial financing will be better. heh.If I ever went back to grad school and picked marketing as what I'd study, it would be how a large enough marketing budget can offset almost any other hurdle a business could possibly have, and Quicken Loans would be my case study.

Hey I am studying to get my real estate license and I want to become an agent but I know that I want to eventually invest into property.

This gives me somewhat of a direction while i study up on various materials. 

The National Science Foundation did a study in the early `1990s that found 55% of adult Americans could not correctly answer "does the earth go around the sun or the sun around the earth, and how long does it take?".

I studied TKs carefully for 9 months and decided it wasn't for me - for every reason you laid out. 

@Najee Hoggard Looking up studies and statistics from the National Association of Realtors at realtor.org is a good starting point.

Yes, we say all the time "we wished we knew, studied, investigated....blah, blah, blah"  Better late than never...and now instead of taking my time dipping our toes in the REI world....we are all the way in and fast tracking it!