I'm an IT professional looking to supplement my income and eventually exit the mandatory workforce.

It is only $395 including the text book and the supplemental study materials are phenomenal, including a math workbook and other online forums and videos for learning. 

If so, you could always help supplement your income by taking on roommates; that's how I started.

Fast forward a some years and now I'm making a good living doing that for a supplement company.

Exclusive representation enables a broker to market his properties to anyone he wants including you, but ties you into buying only from him.

And doing that would enable the listing agent to double dip on the commission, increasing the chance of the agent cooperating with me.

Very good supplemental reading to Hill's book.

If you are just starting off and are somewhat new you might want to consider "strong business credit" this will enable you to build your businesses credit to attract more traditional lenders.

I get lots of such supplemental property tax bills.  

I am interested, as of right now, in either single family or multifamily investing.Currently my basic real estate investing goals are meager, supplement my current salary with passive income from rentals.