@Alesha Walker, a tradesman who wants to be hired for an expensive job has a vested interest in up-selling you on something that may not be your best option.

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

Our job is to provide value in exchange for equity and not to harm anyone in any way.  

@Jacob Beg Some pitfalls are the amount of work it took to be thorough (it was like having another full-time job at points), and potentially missing things that a public adjuster would catch.

Do one task at a time in each app so you can compare apples to apples.Load a property with pictures and details.Market that property.See what your marketing looks like from the public's perspective.Submit a fake application to see how easy the process is.

Many contractors prefer to specialize in certain areas, have limited resources, and will charge more because they don't want the job. 

I also was hoping to be working fulltime during the start of this but im realizing that the job I have now isn't going to allow me to meet these finanical goals and now im wondering if I should take on a career in realestate, but the only one I really know of is realtor. 

I started a job that took me overseas right after I left got out of the service.

What you call guaranteed income is what I call a lot of stress and governmental requirements to get the same or less rent than if you did a good job finding a property and put it up for rent on the open market.Section 8 rentals are for investors who want to keep replicating that strategy in the same area so they know all the regulations and all the players.

When I was wholesaling, the hardest thing to do was to find reliable contractors who could get the job done and not leave the house a total mess.