Getting this to the right team with the vision behind what is ahead can be major for all parties involved.

If you have a nice team, maybe your management company won't destroy your cash flow with a million needless expenses that you have no way to verify to see whether they are actually necessary.Just a heads up from personal experience in living in the Akron "war zone," I would never invest out of state in Akron without local assistance.

This looks like you would need to know what your loan financing is going to be ahead of time.I am beginning to do the same thing. 

I also own all of my vehicles so I have no car payments and low insurance.

Real estate seems to be the best vehicle to financial freedom, and to allow the time for more meaningful work such as volunteering or being more involved in the community.I've reached out to a few local investors to make some connections, but hope to continue to expand that circle. 

Finally, we realized that we were in one of the best cash-flow rental markets in America and decided to go ahead with getting into real estate through fixer-uppers.

If you are in the 30% tax bracket and put in $10,000 of your own funds and you company matches that, you have effectively earned roughly $13,000 right off the top, as opposed to you being able to put $7,000 after-tax direct into your own bank account outside of the IRA.Even if the investment options of the employer plan are not great, as a savings vehicle and means to squirrel away some good tax-sheltered savings, it can be a powerful tool.If the company is contributing to an IRA (SEP or SIMPLE), you can ask to house your account in a self-directed IRA that you could then invest into things like real estate, notes, and the like. 

Thank you ahead of time for the inputs. 

Talk to the code officer ahead of time and explain what you are doing and you want to do everything right. 

The seller may come back with a counter, go ahead and let them know that was truly your best and final.