Brandon's ebook Ultimate Beginner's Guide to REI is a great place to start. 

If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing and The BiggerPockets Podcast.

If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing and The BiggerPockets Podcast.

Under the learn tab here on BP- there's a how to guide on analyzing deals. 

Read all the how to guides and listen to all the podcasts.If you do that it should answer 95% of your questions.

At this point, it would be great if a mentor can guide me and keep me from making beginner mistakes and show me around the process.Appreciate any help in advanceSK

Of course, you need to read The Ultimate Beginners Guide to REI here on BPIf you haven’t already, please read/listen to these books ASAP!

You can also check out his free ebook Ultimate Beginner's Guide, it has a lot of helpful tips for starting up.

Be sure to read through The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing to help you get started.Also - here's a couple articles you might enjoy:The 21 Best Real Estate Investing Books Ever How to Rent Your House: The Definitive Step by Step GuideHow to Be a Landlord: Ten Tips for SuccessFinally -be sure to setup some keyword alerts - especially for "New York City" so you can jump into local conversations.See you around the forums!

I see at least 5 to 10 posts a day that can be answered by simply reading the how to guides or listening to the podcasts.