my two cents worth...I would focus heavily on building your buyer's list.

You can also drive or walk a neighborhood and look for poorly maintained homes and find the owner that way (this method heavily depends on your market)  it probably wouldn't work to well in places like CA

This is going to be geared heavily towards retail buyers.top performing agents have goals that are not aligned with an investor.

I am not looking to be heavily involved at this time, but instead would prefer a more passive investment in NPN in exchange for half of the return.Also, if it matters, I am not accredited. 

I have a MacBook Pro that I bought in 2012 and use it very heavily.

My portfolio is heavily in real estate and stock market.

I have been heavily educating myself and have now started down my road to Financial Freedom.

There is very little short term rentals as Clark county banned it, Las Vegas heavily regulated it, and everyone assumes North Las Vegas will follow. 

@John Casmon episode with @Omar Khan (not mentioning for some reason)  goes into more depth (Episode 52):https://www.casmoncapital.com/podcastTaking annual #s and dividing by 12 is going to give you the wrong answer and cause a ton of problems.This is because value-add project are heavily weighted in the first months and stabilize over the year.

In the end, due to the "great news" they found, they ended up not installing an overhead sewer line or digging out front to attach the downspouts to the mainline in front of our house, but instead, redirected some of the existing piping and doing an edited version of the proposed plan that more heavily used the intact mainline under the house.The end result has seemed to be a resolution to the problem (so the ultimate purpose of the work was achieved), but with what I would estimate to be about 50-70% of the total proposed work.