Is Investing in Real Estate the end goal or just a tool to get you to FI more quickly?

You can have this done for a few hundred bucks and can be a good marketing tool in this current environment.

In addition to the tax relief introduced under the CARES Act, there are a number of other provisions non-tax related that are designed to help small businesses during this time of crisis.As always, consultant your tax and business advisor on how to best employ these various tools that are now available to stimulate your business and your economy.

Have/has the new & improved ARV tool hit the market or are realtors the best source for most recent COMPS? 

We also had to have a flood stage evaluation and recertification done but this saved us over 100K in valuation in the end, good move here.Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Fee structures, training programs and other tools are secondary in importance to me.What does everybody think?

BiggerPockets is one of the tools for your network with other investors in the area. 

You can use tools like Zillow and rentometer.

I am looking at the rental property tool and it ask about repair cost.

A lot of forum members are very knowledgeable in their respective fields related to real estate investing, whether that is real estate sales, wholesaling, flipping, rentals, lending, self-directed IRA and Solo 401k investing, or tax and legal guidance.Discounts on some products and services are offered to BP members: https://www.biggerpockets.com/perks/proAlerts can be really helpful too: http://www.biggerpockets.com/alertsThe site has quite a few tools that can be helpful for new members.