@Patrick Britton if you use a contractor who outsources most of the tasks, your looking at an extra 10-15k overall

I’m glad I came across BiggerPockets.I'm looking forward to starting my new adventure.

Come December or the beginning of 2019 I would love the opportunity to volunteer some of my time to help anyone in search of an extra hand with flips or property management tasks.

Sounds like you're motivated and ready to tackle this new adventure...you're in good company here!

Sounds like you're motivated and ready to tackle this new adventure...you're in good company here!

@Keith HebertYou ‘ve gotten alot of good advice on here, my advice is pay top dollar for high value/low frequency tasks and look at outsourcing your low value high frequency tasks.Pay a CPA to do your taxes and review your books on a quarterly or annual basis-get a bookeeper (there is alot of good 3rd party bookeeping services that work remote) have them do all the data entry/recs and set up checks so all you have to do is print and sign them.

Looking forward to starting this adventure!

@Samuel Toby If you only have 2 hours daily then, I would hire a VA to take care of time-consuming task like cold calling. 

My first thought was that I should approach property management companies to simply volunteer my time to do whatever tasks they may need done, and that via osmosis I will learn a lot.

We are reasonably handy people if a house needs repairs we are willing to take on a task and put in sweat equity.