And get you past the critical and final inspections.  

This is such a critical step and you should definitely take your time and make sure you pick the best market for your goals.

Having a great team to include investor friendly property management, home inspector, contractors, lenders, insurance agents is critical to my success.

It is critical to have a broker you like and trust who will guide you to gems and away from bad neighborhoods, risky properties, etc.

It depends on the type of bankruptcy and debt being discharged, but the point is equating eviction and bankruptcy is comparing two dissimilar things. 

A good inspector is critical Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Yeah putting money aside for CapEx is critical.

These include:Get started faster: Let’s face it—while reading articles like this and absorbing all the podcasts and books on real estate investing is great, jumping in and actually doing your first deal is critical, and what you learn from experience often dwarfs knowledge from all the research sources by far.

Not that important on small jobs, but critical on a large project. 

Continuous training/knowledge gathering is critical to your success.