One more idea, you could use a Home Depot "project loan" to get up to 25k of your materials and some of the labor for things they install for 6 months with no payments or interest until after the 6 months.

The course will provide all the study material you need.

I'll need to decipher what a good list to purchase is, in the mean time I'll be creating my yellow letters / buying my materials!

You need to decide what niche of real estate investing appeals to you or multiple ones and then find highly successful people in that field.Some have written books and others have not and have it all in their head and you have to hang around them locally to get access.I typically never find any books at a book store with real estate as they are new to middle grade material and I know all of that info.

John Q. really supported and promoted education.

Im not big on promoting the businesses of others, but I use this firm for many rental investment properties.

They have an elaborate point system and people get promoted based on points.

I am looking at Bill Bronchicks mentor program, which is very pricey, but he is also an attorney and it includes some legal fees, all his published material, twelve boot camps, the opportunity to have a mastermind group.

I got a quote from a contracter for replacing the whole roof of a 1200 sqft ranch house for $6.5k, including materials.

Flashlight and crowbar.Marketing materials - business cards, flyers, doorhangers etc.Bandit signs.