Also I have noticed that if the loan servicing is outsourced by the lender/bank that most of the short sales dealing with deceased borrowers has gone to Fay Servicing out of Chicago.  

I outsourced it to the pros and they just shipped me everything as you see it.

After the big auto companies left and outsourced their work to overseas the housing market turned into a nightmare.  

I really like RE and I'm trying to think of ways I can get more involved.Here are my thoughts:Property Management - I would find this very stressful and have even outsourced this on my own propertyRE Agent - Sales personality, not for meManage other people's money - Takes time to build a track record.

I am also looking to invest and take lead in outsourced portfolios like yourself.

Some of this is outsourced to actual title companies, but the face of all transactions is the attorney.

You have to outsource all work to unrelated third parties to avoid prohibited transaction. 

And as a follow up thought to that,  if i started marketing for my own deals, i may as well get a license (VA,DC,MD - i live right on the boarder of all of them) to have MLS access, and be able to list the properties after the rehab (saving another 10-15k in agent fees).Saving all that money sounds great and all but from a practical point, is that doing too much (marketing for deals, managing rehab, and playing selling agent) and taking away from the focus of just rehabbing and outsourcing everything else?

There are some agencies in my city that could provide some amount of pre-work training, but the GC might need to help train on specific tasks.My questions are these:- What is a "typical" % of total work done (in terms of cost) by a GC on a single-family home, and how much is outsourced to specialists?  

As I continue to refine my internal systems and outsource things like grounds maintenance, it gets me closer to a turnkey operation that I can delegate to an employee.