The best thing is to perform preventive maintenance and have a log on the unit itself, install CO2 and water sensors that can be monitored with an app like a video camera and budget for replacement one thing at a time.

After listening to tons of podcasts, reading books, and watching videos, I want to start meeting people and building a solid team to meet my goals, and would love any advice on what these markets are like.Any advice or recommendations on who to connect with would be much appreciated.

I've been doing quite a bit of reading, watching videos - have invested some time and money into education for the past few months - but now it's time to get to work.I'd like to start by buying a pre-foreclosure list and tackling that with some mailers + direct calls (maybe even some door knocking). 

Lots of people do it and hope the bank never finds out.(3) The LLC vs. liability insurance debate is also a popular topic on BP.

If I had real internet access I would have watched a couple hundred more hours of tutorial videos and webinars by now since there's nothing else to do, but I don't so I can't and I haven't yet.  

A lot of the HGTV shows have some great ideas and designs, and it's become so popular that it largely seems to influence the trends as much as it reflects them.3.

These became fairly popular just before the last RE bubble popped.

I've ordered a few BiggerPockets books and am reading a lot of other real estate/business books and of course watching every single podcast video that the guys put up on YouTube.

You could talk to a good Agent to ask those kind of like that and where is the most popular space.  

Pretty popular here in Seattle which is an expensive area.