Subscribe to the Podcasts, Read the Blog articles every other day, get a mentor (sounds like you already have).I would say check out Bigger Pockets every day and engage.  

(Bloomberg) -- Freddie Mac is selling more than $1 billion of soured U.S. home loans in its largest sale of the debt.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-20/freddie-mac-selling-1-billion-of-loans-in-largest-deal

There are a lot of questions you could ask and if you put in "Questions for motivated sellers" in the search box you'll find a boatload of forum posts and a couple hundred blog articles about it.

I wrote an article on the topic after reading an internal IRS memo to their agents talking about this.

In process of looking for first rental thus your article is very encouraging.

Interesting article. 

Here's a recent Philadelphia Magazine article about this initiative: http://www.phillymag.com/property/2015/04/20/can-n...This is a great program for Philly area investors who are interested in the Germantown neighborhood.

Our plan is to move to Torrance Ca.As I've been looking for properties on Realtor.com and reading various articles about the ridiculous housing market situation in the L.A. area, I'm starting to come to the conclusion that this might not be such a great landing spot to begin my real estate investing journey. 

article letting Realtors know how investors think and what they want/need from Real Estate Agents, I was wondering if there was a similar article that I could give to my contractor or any potential contractor that explains what things are important when working with investors?

See the full article here: http://www.lvrealestatehelp.com/1/post/2013/10/you-really-want-a-brand-new-home-in-las-vegasrobert-adamswouldnt-recommend-it.htmlIn regards to the inventory rising, we have seen increased inventory week after week since April 2013 until December when we saw our first decline.