A great resource is the webinars section of the website. https://www.biggerpockets.com/proreplay

Also, for the assignment part, what's the verbiage needed on the Buyer's section to assign later? 

Look for duplexes, multi-family properties on Craigslist for rent, or in the eviction section of your newspaper or drive around and get addresses of properties..then call the owners.

The neighbors fence starts in the ally and runs diagonal straight into the corner of my house.

A great resource is the webinars section of the website. https://www.biggerpockets.com/proreplay

If you have lived in the house for at least two of the prior five years, you can exclude the profit from Capital Gains tax under Section 121 of the Internal Revenue Code.If your tax return filing status is "single," you can exclude up to $250,000 of capital gains.If your tax return filing status is "married (or whatever) filing jointly," you can exclude up to $500,000 of capital gains.There is no requirement for what the money is used for.  

All units are currently occupied. 2 units are on a month-to-month and 1 unit just signed a lease.  2 units are paying their rent with cash and social services. 1 unit is paying with cash and Section 8.

Situations may dictate that a site cannot be inspected, etc.The scope of work section of the report will disclose whether or not the site was visited and when.Appraisers are only required to identify the property- ideally by address, parcel number, aerial map, legal description, or all of the above.

consider...tim ferris books, esp tools of titans...has a section about 'build your own education' where you purposely seek out opportunities investing similar $ and time as the mba program, yet tailored to your needsalso, check out the free resources in your town, like SCORE...retired business people giving advice, mentoring, etc and find someone who is doing what you would like to do and consider ways to learn from themenJOY the freedom of self education and build your own portfolio/degree!!

They talk about different aspects of Section 8 and there was some talk about raising rents.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/81/topics/318...