Ideally, I'd like to offer $180K.

and what would your ideal off market price be, if so?

If your numbers were way off because of the unkowns then the contigencies in the contract let you off the hook - that's what they are there for.I have some other inputs but we should discuss over a call - I sent you a connect ...here is the link to Jerry's video

It's the ideal rental in my market, 15 minutes from Ft Bliss, it needs about 5k in work, I got it at 70% ARV.

Besides the obvious "Introduction to Real Estate" video series, does anyone have a path they followed on educating themselves before making their first purchase?

Ideally, you should be making deals that earn you positive monthly cash flows until you reach that financial freedom sweet spot. 

Originally posted by @Jason Shackleton:@Cooper Lammonds I love the book The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson.I saw this book before and was thinking about buying it because I struck me that I watch so many "tip videos" on Youtube where I say, that's a great idea but then I never remember to implement it when I need to.

AnalyzersI prefer the ones that come with video training. 

We have also secured a real estate agent who will only take 4% commission and who will guide us through the process.Obviously our plan is very elementary in nature as we have analyzed a minimal amount of deals and are not entirely confident in our abilities to determine the ideal purchase. 

I purchased a single family home in 2016 in the Sacramento with my VA loan, before purchasing our first home I did not know much about real estate and investing, I began reading real estate and investment books and found biggerpockets, I'd listen to the podcasts, watch every video they'd put out on YouTube and I read every book that biggerpockets had put out at the time.