I've discovered several local REIAs via meetup.com, including http://reiadfw.com/.  

Discover the seller's reason for selling (probably obvious at 80), the numbers on the property and any work needed.  

Discovered Bigger Pockets podcast about 2 weeks ago and am hooked. 

In San Francisco and the entire Bay Area basically, the prices of homes have gone up so much, which is why I discovered this site, to learn special skills, strategies or methods to start investing in RE with low income...if that is possible. 

There's a lot that you need to discover before you narrow down the best options for purchasing.  

Our Puget sound RE prices are a small fraction of California's and they've discovered that opening a branch office, conducting everything online, gives them a way to hire good workers and let them enjoy a high quality of life for less than half the housing costs of CA.

Good place to start, give your self a few years to learn and you will discover you can manage it all yourself.

I also just discovered I counted holding costs twice & will put an additional 10k in my pocket.

So I decided to go ahead and jump.The next morning I called the selling agent and discovered that that the price had just been lowered to $19,900.

It is not a secret document that needs to be deciphered by an attorney.