I know the feeling...Middle of a very cold winter both the inducer & blower motors go out on a 2 yr old Lenox furnace.All under warranty except for labor & my HVAC guy is not available.

SFRs for rental purposes are just not the norm like they are in the mid west and rust belt cities.. renters live in apartments not houses basically. 

For anyone with any knowledge of making D'class work in the Rust Belt, this sales pitch was as fantastic a premise as the Chronicles of Narnia.

I would get a few sales under your belt so you can gauge the amount of work and what is needed to do a few transactions.]3) Does my limited availability hamper my desirability to a broker or mentor, to the point where my legal experience cannot compensate for my current commitments?

On the other end you have people like our very own @Brandon Turner who say you that strategies are like tools in a tool belt.

My short term goal is to get my first property under my belt to gain the experience and confidence to one day get my vacation rental in the mountains.

PS i build new home communities its not uncommon for our buyers inspections to have 5 to 20 items on a home inspection report.. so a older home will always have something no matter if it was just rehabbed or not..so we do the punch list as long as what the inspector is noted is correct they are not always right.. and when they argue that something is not to code and we know it is.. we push back.also you being in Hawaii were you have no heating systems this could be new to you but heating systems are major issues with rust belt homes.. you want to make sure they are in good working order.. to me Hawaii would be one of the very best places to be a landlord and own property .. 

Once you have a few deal under your belt with a partner, then you could start to syndicate on your own if you choose.

The property isn't very costly as it's in Cleveland Ohio (good ol' rust belt).

@George Blower, thank you!