Here's a good starting point: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/what-to-ask-a-real-estate... 

People started to ask me to help them learn how to invest so I started coaching new investors over the past 7 years on how to start investing in real estate.

I'm actually going to start with a turnkey property.

- You or the PMC can get 3 bids, but who is going to know how to accurately compare them and understand if something is missing - that will require more work+charges once the project has started (a standard tactic by many contractors!)?

If you're interested in more information and want to jump start your Real Estate career. feel free to reach out to me!

I am eyeing up a property I want to buy that costs much more than usual so my plan was to use a hard money loan to purchase, and rehab it with my own money, then sell. 

Start with the list criteria that will put you in front of likely sellers.

I started out with a great cleaning company that did great work but the owner and I were not a good fit, they cleaned well but she didn't like my over communication. 5.) 

We are starting the process of dissolving our investment business (LLC) that has two partners.

Typically starting with a smaller rehab budget of $50K or less (maybe a max of $75K) and avoiding a 1 to 1(or higher) ratio of purchase to rehab costs is recommend when you are first starting out.