It might take a couple of years for you to really be in a place to go on your own, but a mentorship, internship, or even just getting hired at a larger flipping company would be a huge value to you just getting into this all!  

I highly recommend you travel to the market yourself and spend a couple days driving around, looking at various properties, if you are going to be buying anywhere.  

I have found a couple locations that are in Zone "X" and the price is right.

A fourth got four accepted clients, and during the lease signing, they all bailed and the client smartly pivoted to MTR.

I've got a couple of soft factor questions I'm not sure how to analyze and would love to speak to a few of you more experienced types!

I need credibility, either through working for a couple of years for a company or buying my own property, starting small, and scaling with time.Now, my plan is to graduate next year (Im a junior), and get a job in a firm as an analyst in order to build that experience and mainly cover my living expenses, while on the side buy my first small property and go from there.However, and this is where I start overthinking,  I still have 1 year left in school and I want to use it to my advantage as I don't have any expenses or responsibilities other than school yet, and I want to do my first deal.

I have spent the past couple years doing research and think its time to actually start.

My wife and I used to do flips in this area, and I have a couple listings along with long term rentals I manage in the area..For the co-host, they typically do not handle permitting and other items like that (this can be agreed upon between you and the co-host.

You would need to get at least a couple of stays under 7 days before year end. 

I'm ASSUMING (a bad idea, I know) that they were a married couple and had joint ownership.