Start with getting rid of high interest, “dead weight” debt ( cars, credit cards, personal loans, student loans, etc.).

I guess my only assets would be retirement accounts, my car, and my golf clubs 🤣Is that what you mean??

Normally, the better route is to rehab one unit at a time so 1. you have some income coming in during the rehab.2.

If its a 1 car garage, id just recommend storage and thats it. 

Your gang of thieves (and it would take a gang) might have better odds  of success knocking off armored cars at high noon or kidnapping wealthy children for ransom (a crime with a near-zero success rate in the developed world today).Get the case number, contact the USPIS independently, see if this rent heist story isn't really a snow job. 

We are back to normal: you will actually need some money to invest and a W2 to qualify for a loan.

Hypothetical: I can walk up to somebody and say I want to buy your car.

My largest goal has been to get my "semi" passive to 10-12k mth to exceed my family's 8-10k/mth normal spending.     

One person booked at the normal rate instead of what we quoted and the other somehow had a pet fee attached which we still don’t understand since we do not have that as an option.  

He flipped cars to bring money to the table.