So you answer your questions:Education:Figure out first the people that are successful, then figure out how they became successful, then think on your own and evaluate if that what they did makes logical sense and if it is to your ethical standards.Marketing:SEO, Facebook ads, Youtube ads, Social media engagement, offer free value (see... like what I am doing here on BP) HANDS DOWN!

I am a nurse investor In Springdale and would love to see your progress/outcome. 

My Fiancé and I are in the process of evaluating our options when it comes to housing for the mid to long term.

How did you evaluate which one was right for you?

And decided to buy it as a rental property instead of making it my primary residence (and i am evaluating if thats the right decision or not, by running tax implication scenarios in my head).Most examples i see either explain depreciation recapture and suspended losses separately, or they take an example where profit from sale is so big that it is conveniently separated into parts that go towards depreciation recapture taxes and have still room left over to offset suspended passive losses.

Best of luck and keep us updated on your progress. 

@Juan V Lopez - how is the search and evaluation going?

Conversationally ask what their process is for finding deals that could potentially yield a good cash flow and cash on cash return.There are varying degrees of what I would call "investor-ready" agents, from like a level 0 agent who can't even spell investment; to level 1 where they know the terminology but can't really do investment math and don't understand the approach for evaluating a deal; level 2 where they do know how to evaluate a deal but can only do that on a hunt-and-peck basis with random single listings on the MLS; level 3 is like level 2 but they have an ability to correlate the single listing with a single set of rental info such as through rentometer; level 4 when they know how to take a CSV dump out of the MLS and plug in rental information to develop cash on cash scenarios in Excel; level 5 when they can load a CSV dumped out of the MLS, and another CSV of the MLS rental info, into a database like SQL Server, and run a query that correlates the for sale listings with the rental listings by either geocode or subdivision, and then sort the result by the calculated estimates of cash on cash ROI.

Keep me posted on how your new property progresses. 

For awhile now I have had goals around real estate and really have progressed as far as I would like.