After receiving these funds, he and his partner has completely disappeared, leaving us with no communication or updates for over 2.5 years.

I was thinking of putting my property into the section 8 program to get around the new lead law, at least until my current tenant leaves.

If anyone has good recommendations on how to start learning how to analyze deals to see if they would be worth it please leave a comment down below.

Too many people get tied to their real estate, but all assets are tradeable especially when they won't cash flow when you leave them.

Personally, I wouldn't do any flip for less than $30k net of sale because STCG tax for me would end up leaving me with about $20k or so of actual profit.

Do you have people ready to repair and clean the place lined up as soon as the last tenant leaves?

As a real estate agent you will be in a position to find good property managers for when you leave.

If our main goal together is to acquire as many properties as possible as fast as possible - it feels like this leaves us with a smaller tax return, thus less capital to use to reinvest into new properties. 

You are off to a great start because you know you don't want to LEAVE your job to do real estate, you want real estate to be a sufficient side car to the job you are already crushing out of the gate.

I leave virtual staging out of these photos if vacant, so there are no big surprises when people come to see the house, and it's empty.