Go through the education tab along the top and read through all the guides, read through starting out in RE under blog topics, and start listening to all of the podcasts.That will give you a good foundation and show you that there are different niches of real estate, and you will begin to think about your goals, and what you want to get out of real estate and then you'll be well on your way to studying the exact strategy you want to pursue so you can get into real estate.Until you decide what investing strategy / niche you want to get into, you'll be lost in the real estate sauce for a while.For instance...

Your team will come once you have the ability to Control Real Estate at a potential profit.When you call a Title Company, they will say "I'd love to settle your properties, CALL ME WHEN YOU HAVE A DEAL!

Luckily BP was able to stop things on their end before they got out of control.... but my blog had to be shut down and any of my online accounts deleted.Reporting posts with my information and emails to their support staff went unanswered and my information was online for days before I finally got it down.  

I don't want debit cards as they are quite unsecured, my friend lost 1000s when his card was swiped and my brother lost 100s.  

HiJust realised I had better introduce myself before I get entirely lost in the volumes of reading available in here.

The sale also costs me +/- $10K in expenses = lost money.  

Sounds like it will be lost to a foreclosure one way or another - and since the owners are not able to be located - or don't want to be located, just remember - there are many other properties to locate - and other owners who need your services.

I think that you need to take control of the situation.

Figure out the cost of lost opportunity for the funds you will lose earning power on to put 20% down to avoid PMI and PMI is the best thing you can have.  

When you do commercial in MN, anyone can pull the permit.I'm clarifying this only because it is a strategy for controlling cost.