@Brendan Harvey Both the CPA and the lawyer will need to know what kind of real estate investing you are planning on doing.Are you going to do Fix & Flip or Buy & Hold or do Short Term Rentals or Commercial or Lending Money (Notes) or what?

Are they living inside the home itself, or in a detached guest house / casita kind of situation?

I'd recommend that you get that right before spending anything near $3k on a list.Separately learn the source of the list, and what it takes to get the list yourself before you spend that kind of money.

Looking back, it’s kind of silly but the first book I read that got me started was, you guessed it, Rich Dad Poor Dad, that same week I also read The Richest Man in Babylon (which I think was mentioned in Rich Dad).

I'm looking for an interesting and informative real estate investors conference with a trade show kind of feel which also offers seminars on topics.

If the existing lease does not have the language in it that allows for that kind of extra expense (which is probably unusual) that makes a tenant partially or fully responsible with explanation to the new tenants responsiblility for that type of expense for air conditioning that is unusual unless common in that area and might be discovered during the research period on the subject property and uncovered then. 

That's the kind of stuff you can't learn in a book.

Would you be so kind as to recommend an investor friendly titlte company in the Lewisville/Flower Mound area?

Also if anyone knows a good mason that does this kind of work I’d appreciate the recommendation.  

If you are buying a multifamily property anywhere in NYC (outer boroughs just as much as Manhattan) using an FHA loan, you are really going to struggle to be cash-flow positive in that kind of time frame with the sheer amount of leverage that you are taking on at the start, because your monthly payments are pretty substantial after you put very little money down.