Hi welcome great books like that will give you a solid foundation.I also like weekend Millionaires secrets to investing in real estate by Summey and Dawson .

There is lots of solid advice here so far on this thread.  

I have some active projects right now needing some solid crews to help!

I used to go to rilandrecords.com several times a week for links to land evidence records and tax assessor websites for RI cities & towns (Providence, Pawtucket, more recently Warwick, Johnston etc.)It went offline last week (Friday I think) but there is a replacement site with the same info as the old one: https://ripropinfo.com (RI property info).This is one of a small handful of essential sites I have on my "bookmarks" bar for doing real estate in Rhode Island, along with the RI secretary of state corporations database and the RI contractors registration board license lookup, so I hope this is helpful.

@Stefan Dickert   check out Myrarebird.com  they have once a month meetings it cost a little bit to join them but they don't pitch products and give some good solid advice from what I witnessed. the two gentlemen who run it are VERY knowledgeable and good guys to know.My daughter is in corporate finance at Intel so you can imagine with the shake ups how busy she has been LOL.. wish you the best

I can't speak for all tenants, but I can share some anecdotal evidence from my own experiences as a landlord.  

Hard to give solid timeframes.

Move on to the next.Does anyone have any tips on rock solid strategies to boosting your credit over the course of a year?

Unless you have definitive evidence that an oil tank was removed in the past or was never underground, it's worth the money to get a company to do an oil tank sweep--an abandoned underground oil tank is usually a deal breaker if the seller is refusing to remove it, mostly due to the fact that the liability arising from it can be in the 10s or even 100s of thousands of dollars depending on the extent, if any, of oil leaks/contamination.A lot of these things, though, are issues you can address after going under contract in your inspection process, and your inspector will look at lots of other things as well (is the roof OK?

I have a small budget, but I feel a solid plan.