Great advice above, but here is Brandon's blog about house hacking buying a duplex or triplex and living in one of the units.Brandon's hack housing blog

@Dennis Hughes I wrote a blog with some of the basics I use.

Help others help you by doing your own homework, taking a journal and listening to every podcast on BP and others like it; reading blogs; asking specific questions that take industry leaders very little time to answer.

There's a lot written about that topic on the wegowise website blog. 

Another great place is to look around the blogs, forums and listen to the podcasts. 

Hopefully you've been brushing up on learning MFRs via BP blogs and such, right?!

Originally I want to start a blog, but sadly I am not much of writer.  

Also, I've developed relatively sophisticated referral-based selling strategies that that require me to educate the referral sources and show them both to how manage the client's expectation(s) and more recently, very specific ways they are to refer the client.So, I utilize offline and online advertising and, obviously, give a lot of thought to each and how they fit in the overall marketing mix.I like direct mail, inbound telemarketing, well-placed, industry/profession specific print ads, direct mail, paper & ink newsletters, public speaking, press releases, blogging & forums (limited social media), direct sales (in person), some conferences and specialty advertising (mugs, pens notepads) and a few others I won't mention. 

Make sure to listen to all the BP podcasts, read the articles on the main blog and be active in these forums to learn a ton very quickly about any topic in real estate you want to know more about.This is also a great place to meet people that can be assets to your business.

@Nathan Flanigan -When you are reviewing the possibility of going Turnkey, be sure and read some of these BiggerPockets.com blog articles.