It is never the perfect time, you may never know absolutely everything, it will never all be easy, and longer term plans or features may change.

I joined the Bigger Pockets forum after listening to the podcast and was especially inspired by the episode featuring Ashley Hamilton from Detroit, Michigan (Hi, Ashley!!) 

I have spent 1000's of hours reading, scanning the web, going to seminars, and targeting areas.

It has a lot of features and so far it seems the people here are great.

Personally I have spent a lot of time busilding my twitter followers and have not seen a huge amount of direct business.I like to use Twitter as a news source and to research things I am interested in by using the search feature.

His pitchmen will be upselling for a later seminar.

Doesn't have the fixed asset tracking feature found on the desktop version.

Hoas that include utilities, front door men, and extravagant facilities/pools/excercise rooms are the last thing owner landlords want, as it just greatly drives the cost of the HOA up, Cali and Florida seem to set the standard for amazingly high HOA cost and extravagant features provided by the HOA

Those getting rich, involved in these investment strategies are book/seminar gurus.

Most of the questions a new investor will have are already answered there (use the search feature to find specific topics).