These "hipsters" are young college grads who will live in areas that are (A) relatively inexpensive, (B) low or trending down in crime, (C) close to attractive civic amenities, and (D) are close enough to jobs. 

Sure, all of the stuff can be found for free, or relatively inexpensive through books, but I am someone that does better with a little structure.

The most inexpensive title work is probably from property onion.  

Credit reports on individual principals are rather inexpensive and title abstract and examine are not more than a couple hundred dollars.

The attorney we use charges $800 for uncontested and $1,500 if contested. it's not wise to look for an inexpensive attorney when its hundreds of thousands of dollars at play.

Hi @Ryan Dunn - the easiest is just to ask a few brokers that are active in the area, you can also simply attend a local real estate investors meetup (a lot of them are free or very inexpensive) and let folks know you're looking to offload your inventory. 

Expensive to put in, expensive to take out, looks terrible very quickly. 

$100,000 seems really inexpensive for this level of a remodel. 

Inexpensive and you have access to education resources and the best part is networking with other broker/owners in the facebook group where you can really accelerate learning.

Another way of thinking about this is self-managing your property; you wouldn't report "management fees" in expenses and then have that portion in "self-employment" income.