Hey David - Happy to point you in the right direction here and send over some material that can answer some baseline questions!

The cat skeleton you can argue holds no material value.

Is the developer/GC providing materials and labor to the partnership at his cost? 

Some mentees will act as a bloodhound for the mentor, knocking on doors, driving for dollars, scouring the internet, making cold calls, or performing other services that help the mentor find new deals.

Its marketing material. 2.

-How to set a strategic marketing plan for motivated sellers which includes direct mail secrets, internet marketing and bandit sign marketing.

I have scoured the Internet for an answer to this.

A scope can show you all sorts of important things other than just whether the sewer line itself is in bad condition (it will show you the material of the line, junctions, turns, tree roots, settlement points, etc.

Surface the material issues.  

Within my 1st day I put 2 duplexes under contract, 1ST DAY never even looked on the internet and researched/analyzed.