I have recently decided I want to try my hand at real estate investing and am currently scouring the internet to find every piece of information possible to assist me.

It is equivalent of lipstick on a lady or three-piece suit on a gentleman.

I plan to live in my first property, so we can check that piece off the list! 

His most important piece of information was that " You just need to start somewhere".Next up was Sam Weaver of Fortune Weavers.  

The only way to truly track your direct mail response rates is to use a different phone number for each mail piece.

Learned it from Keller.I also made a CashFlow game piece to reflect our finances (with Income, Expenses, Assets and Liabilities filled in) and a time or two playing the CashFlow game with our own numbers clarified what direction we needed to take, i.e. pay off debt, buy another property, etc.

. - You should absolutely be using excel, quicken or a piece of paper every month/every unit to reconcile gross rent, all expenses and draw.

As a new member one of the best pieces of advice I received was to setup some "Keyword Alerts" to get into conversation in your target area.

The biggest missing piece for me right now is to correctly estimate rehab cost.

@Pavlos Kasselouris  Don't underestimate the value in putting together a deal package together for lenders just as @Jeff Kehl described in his post...This is very professional and will make it look like you know what your doing, even if you don't (yet).You are focusing way too much on the financing piece....Sellers of commercial properties understand you are going to finance, and they aren't looking for pre-approvals, you are not buying a house.You need to focus on finding good deals, if it is a good enough deal someone will finance it.