I definitely recommend that you seek out a Certified Cost Segregation Professional so that you are confident in the quality of the work performed and the deliverables produced.

You can then GC the project yourself and let them help be eyes and ears and offer you the speed to get the projects done on time.As for financing, I had great success using a commercial loan product with a small community bank.

I think most successful members here started with RE early on. 

I may also charge if one of our people can't perform scheduled maintenance because the tenant has not crated an aggressive dog.

@Eugene Lubman Selling the property to your parents allows them to generate passive income while enabling you to perform a 1031 exchange to defer capital gains taxes.

Has anyone had any success negotiating a lowered payoff for a medicare lien on a property headed for foreclosure auction? 

I ask because I've interviewed a number of general contractors over the years for my various real estate projects and am shocked at how the vast majority showed up to the job site to give an estimate in a vehicle that did not display their contractor license number or business name.Aside from this one issue, they'd often have great portfolios, long list of successful permits I could verify they pulled, great references, no complaints on their license, and had been licensed for over a decade.

Wishing success to all of you.

I really think he just wants to put a young investor like myself on a good track for success (like he tried to do with his son.)

I always make sure that the draws are commensurate with the amount of work (and specifically the trade) performed to date.