I just want to get home and count money while cooking dinner and drinking beers. 

You don't know what happened and I'll bet drinking was involved. 

Any contractor with only 5-star reviews haAs a lot of cousins so don't drink the kool-aid.

I feel like most opportunities I see on MLS in my area would not provide the opportunity to pay for the repairs, hire people to do the job, pay for their lodging, food, and drinks and still have that big of a profit margin. 

One of Whelton’s research studies, published in 2014, was the first US study on the effects multiple PEX pipes have on the quality of drinking water.

If you want to chat on the phone sometime or meet for a coffee/drink, we could make that happen.If you plan to eventually settle in WPB (or whichever city), then I would recommend starting with investments nearby there so you could eventually manage them yourself if are no longer moving around a lot.

Hot Rods on Houghton/I-10 is willing to host the event in the upstairs bar/seating area on Wednesday evenings, but it is $200 for less than 20 people, and that is food and drinks included. 

Otherwise it will be like drinking from a fire house...You mentioned Dave Van Horn's book which is good start,  others include: Martin Saenz- Note Investing made Easier Joshua Andrews Paper ProfitsFuqan Bilal Turning Distress into SuccessJim Napier Invest in Debt  (from 1983 may have a difficult time find copy...) 

A few fresh investors a couple of agents, and property managers if I can find a day everyone will make work next week for coffee dinner or drinks it's still in the air.

@Jay Hinrichs I'm in San Diego for the weekend let me know if you around on Monday or Tuesday and we'll go grab drink.