Find someone you trust and build a relationship, sometimes it speeds things up by a year or two to pay for trainingNever asking your questions. .

You will need to get a job for the fastest way to get into real estate investing.

At the same time, little bits and pieces that I’m able to pick and understand are super exciting and motivating :) which brings me to my main questions - 1) where can I read and learn all about real estate from scratch - like super baby steps explained in super simple ways to help me get up to the speed with this community?

It will make you liquid and it will increase the speed at which you can scale. 

You always vet yourself all aspects.You also never speed up anything; fast solutions have slow problems.

It took a lot of time, and was not the fastest way to get financial success.

It might speed your ramp up by a year or two, but not in the next 6 months.  

Self-managing is what got me there the fastest. 

I would work with a credit repair company to speed up this process.

The fastest/cheapest is to get the other title holder to execute a new QC to you, but if you can't find her then QT is your recourse.