Make sure the estimates are very detailed (scope, SF, $/sf, schedule, etc) to ensure that there is a clear dilation between contract work and change orders.

But day trading is a job at best and a nightmare at worst. 

Findlay is a real oppotunity beause you’ve got a combination of stable job sources, a decent population size, and often lower acquisition costs compared to bigger metros.About choosing an agent..

In neighborhoods that won't attract high credit score tenants, I've found that a stable job history with a MINIMUM of 1 year at current or previous job to be the best indicator of a great tenant. 

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

It would be best to befriend a local contractor or even help one out on a job to see any differences from your past eight years doing it in another country.

Job and Talent Loss : The duration of recovery has and will continue to force migration.

Your story sounds like what you hear when someone has gotten divorced, or lost a high paying job and had to sell or lost the home to foreclosure, along those lines. 

Am I giving myself another job/business?

For a growth market to be growing, you need a lot of job and population migration.