If you are looking for flip property, why don't you find some reputable local wholesalers that are actively doing deals?

It has a reputation for being extremely liberal, so most of the rights are slanted to the Tenant not the landlord.

If you don't have a whole bunch of properties, you can manage yourself, at least until you network with other investors who can point you in the direction of a reputable PM.

Do I concentrate in solid mechanics, thermal/fluids, manufacturing and materials, aerodynamics, etc?

Difficult to find REPUTABLE investors, agents, mortgage people, etc.

Now that you have established a great reputation with other professionals in your market area, let's move on to other difficulties.

I have lots of friends in the business who are more than happy to refer me to people with good reputations, and I know how to get multiple bids on jobs.The property is a mile from my house, so it would be easy to go over there multiple times a day when I need to.

Seems to be a reputable company but the claims are too good to be true.

at mobile homes, manufactured homes, and can't tell the difference.

He has been successful for years doing this and I've heard of others doing this.However, others have forewarned me about lowballing offers on the MLS because I will create a bad reputation amongst agents.