Do you know of any good training material to help me gain the basic knowledge that would be need to succeed in this category?

REIA's must vary quite a bit from city to city and state to state. 

Foreign investors make up a large portion of investors in all categories.

An example of this is letting a convicted felon move into the residence.Code Enforcement: The rules vary from one city to the next.

There's ton of thoughts/info out there and generally mailers seem to fall into 3 categories for this.  1) General Letters 2) Postcards 3) Blind offer letters.Just trying to see if anyone has ever gone with the "blind" offer route using postcards instead of an enveloped letter format. 

The amount you can borrow may vary from state to state but FHA is a federal program so a lot of the requirements are the same. 

I've had varied luck with tenant's picking up maintenance.

Of course, as an investor, you are looking at the homes that have been passed over by potential owner occupants and go into the "extended" category.

Hard money rates and points vary depending upon the risk you are to that lender.  

Use varies throughout the year.