It may be best to bite the bullet, begin the process immediately, and be prepared to have an vacant apartment through the new year at least.  

Man the BP bullets also drive me crazy!

The rant in my reply was intended as bullet points in general and not at anyone in particular. 

Unless you get the magic bullet, you'll probably go through a few.

. • Use bullet points when you can to get points across, and for easy skimmability.

If not, go ahead and get a couple different rates from vendors and bite the bullet. 

I'm ready to bite the bullet but just don't have any support from family/friends or just don't understand why I want to get into flipping.

I've seen posts on craigslist similar to car wraps but not quite as extensive but they were looking for people willing to have an advertisement put on the back window of their car stating something along the lines of "We Buy Houses" with a few bullet points and a number.  

I would bite the bullet.

I could give you an entire book of a response here but Ill try to give you some bulleted thinking points. - First off with your partners are you working together as a team do you each have assigned capacities as to roles and responsibilies?