Our place is owner occupied, and I wish I had the skills to just fix a dishwasher or the A/C if it goes out (fan outside the house broke like a year ago), but sadly I cannot fix any of this stuff.

If you don't then it is beyond your skill set anyway.Why even consider being involved.

My only tip would be to really do the education bit in the beginning so you know exactly what you are getting into--what time requirements, effort requirements, risk, skills requirement, etc.

If you hire the skilled trades that can pull permits you can have you handyman do the rest.

If you're walking into $50k of free equity, don't want to miss out on that over <$3k of semi skilled labor. 

I am currently going to my local college to eventually get my CPA so I have good math skills and a general understanding of money/investments/risk.

I feel very comfortable with real estate and know my skills can be used to start personally investing.

I would recommend finding one that you work well with, is investor friendly, and their skill set offsets yours.

His English skills aren't as bad as that. 

To refine and develop my real estate skills I am always pulling up random stuff on real estate websites.