Never hire GC's or contractors out of desparation, put remote cameras on every jobsite & stop laying awake at night worrying if you've bit off more than you can chew.

However, you mentioned that insufficient funds and low credit score are roadblocks to getting this deal nailed down without investors.This is a massive bone to chew on with your little/limited experience in handling such a large scale project.You might want to offload it to other investors for a fee and revisit your steps to get a smaller deal done.There are several moving parts for you to synchronize and make it happen.I am not saying it can't be done, but, you have a steep hill ahead.Good luck, best wishes and please keep us informed about you positive or negative success in closing this deal.

I don't have thousands and thousands of dollars I can just put up or a mentor/someone to just bounce ideas off so I'm wondering am I trying to bite off more than I can chew or is this something I can be capable of now (with education of course)?

I have experienced the problem my self in Rochester, I actually watched and waited for a cop to drive by and flagged him down, chewed the fast with him for a min, made a connection.

The bubble gum chewing high schoolers I have seen in the front office of every PM I've been to I really doubt triages anything.  

I also didn't want to bite off more than I could chew, so I figured I'd start in one area (multi-family) and later move into other properties, like SF.

The one realtor I talked to seemed to think most people sign 90 day agreements.It's going to take everything in me to not royally chew this guy out when I send him the message I am firing him.

It leaches chemicals into the water, does not last as long as copper, rats chew through it.

Selling will chew up a lot of profit and create a nasty tax burden.

I use Travelers Ins and they are fine with it just as long as the breakers are updated.One benefit is rats won't chew threw the wires.