Books and YouTube gurus selling courses teach people to borrow money from one property to buy another with little or no regard for how heavily the investor is leveraged.

Check out YouTube videos or podcasts from Dave Meyers.Read "Long Distance Real Estate Investing" by David Greene.Don't expect to absorb everything in one sitting.

You can't go wrong with adding value and expressing genuine interest in what others have going on.You may not have much time to read these before your meeting... but below are 2 books that have changed the way I look at networking events... you can also search these on Youtube for book summaries!

I have a modest LinkdedIn presence and use Youtube only for watching videos and privately sharing others. 

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

I've watched him on youtube.

I see two ways of attacking this: - Paid mentorship/training- Teach myself (YouTube videos, Reading, Trail by Fire basically) I am leaning towards the paid option because I do have the capital to pay for a program.

Your talking about one guy and seem to have some fascination with, there have been people buying thousands of properties this way for 30+ years that are not Youtube starts, they are doing it correctly and also teaching.

What I did was to watch several YouTube videos from  that area where I want to invest.

Something I keep in mind when researching on YouTube is finding someone the most similar to myself in regard to personality, so that when you viewe their videos, you could see myself easily applying the information.