Preston,Feel free to share a copy of your postcard here.Sounds like you're only offering your services and talking about me-Me-ME.I'm a big advocate on offering a free home seller's guide as a lead generation magnet on all of your marketing material. 

Start to build up a feel for what material costs are like to fix up a floor, redo siding, tile a bathroom.That's all I have off the top of my head, good luck and good hunting!

Competition is tough until you get past the mountains :)

(I am reading and studying as much material on the matter that I can find.)

I am attempting to get some skin in the game, learn the numbers, etc etc and it is tough.  

Being on BP is a great first step , there are a ton of materials and people to network with.

Life happens and you need to be able to easily cover all expenses and with such a high mortgage payment that might be tough.

Not only can you network with other investors and comment on the forums about real estate topics, you can also access free online educational materials such as courses and videos.

Nobody is selling anything remotely as useful and most online courses are some book they cobbled together borrowed from a site like Biggerpockets --  Only then to sell you for a  fortune.You already made your first great decision to question the material in a post....Wasn't that easy? 

Thanks, I didn't realize there was online material offered on here as well.