Just making sure I don't expend on "special interest"!

Don't forget you're the most expendable one in the equation, why?

And just to expend the topic - what are yours line items for a yearly maintenance on your SFR rentals ?

At rental prices go down the amount of expendable income available to individuals and families goes up.

If all goes well I want to expend into monthly rentals.

These are great questions you are asking and like Account Closed said there are far too many people who think of GC's as expendable commodities and don't appreciate the amount of work that goes in to even the most modest of rehab projects, so the more you try and understand your business partners the better off you'll be. 

This will be a start, so you can take you learn and expend from it.  

Regardless of the time/effort and even cash expended to-date, you made an executive level decision to cut your losses and shop elsewhere. 

Anyway, I knew I wanted real estate in my early 20s, but made a decision to start a business that failed around 2007 when people lost their jobs and had no more expendable income.

Shopping deals and/or re-trading deals means the deal is transactional in nature and the bank will not try hard to make your deals work and the lender won't expend any political capital in the committee meetings on your behalf if you do this.