Assuming this is in fact a good deal, and your friend is a qualified GC, instead of trying to be the lead investor, he should be searching for someone who has the balance sheet to take down this deal on their and be a transactional participant.

In addition being able to do your own searchs and one thing out west here that was very productive for us/me was just going through the big Plat maps ( the actual mylar / paper ones in the day) We could find shadow plats.

Do a search for Background Checks on the Passive Pockets site.

You can also find real estate investing groups through meetup.com, Facebook, or a Google search.

@Matthew Ferguson do you have any updates on your search?

First of all, I suggest you search the forums as arbitrage has been discussed ad nauseam.

May be more if you wanna search. https://www.biggerpockets.com/topics/386835

I've been searching for going on 6 months, so I need to reflect and regroup.

Brad.I'd just search on google "Pinetta property management".Call around to these companies, ask them a few basic questions until you find the right fit. 

I've been looking in deal finder for properties and noticed to multi families aren't showing up in map view, but when I search them by address the listing appears.