Lastly, invest in advanced courses and resources that go beyond surface-level information, seeking specialized training in foreclosure investing that covers in-depth strategies and risk management.

This is to train your tenants that late payments are not acceptable practice.

Specific for the Atlanta Housing Authority, you have to attend the landlord/property manager training session to even accept a section 8 tenant.

Try to get your wifi router on the same level as close as possible to the lock (<20 feet should give you great signal strength), and your Schlage Encode wifi reception should be in good shape. 

But you have a much higher chance of missing something than a trained attorney.

Since you're in Central Jersey, I'll keep my advice general.First, think about your personal strengths and how they fit into your investment strategy.

It also helps to develop this relationship early so you can see how the two of you will work together over time and really understand their strengths and weaknesses.

Get a few of those and read them - that way you can start to get familiar with what kinds of things can happen in a house, and how big of a deal it is to fix each one of them.If there are any new houses being built in your area (like, within bike or bus/train range), and the neighborhood is relatively OK, go over to that neighborhood, after the workers have left for the day, and see what building a house looks like. 

The borrower was overqualified, the property was cash flow positive, I approached a local lender and due to the strength of property and borrower they provided essentially conventional terms of 25% down on a 25 year amortization where as other investors could only consider the transaction as cash. 

Investing in real estate with your own money and from a position of financial strength is, I believe, a far more rewarding experience than leveraging other people's money and being dependent on a positive outcome to keep you afloat.