Keeping it friendly and low intensity is more likely to be successful.I recently offered to completely replace my neighbor's fence next to my rental and they said "No".

  $900 down to come to our initial 3 days of intensive training. 

As a side note, my wife and I work full time and are looking at strategies that are less time intensive.

Additionally, I would like to attempt to do the process Owner/Builder with subcontracting work out as well as doing some of the work I'm comfortable with (I have some experience with bathroom & kitchen remodeling an am not new to the construction industry).

Sales is a time-intensive venture, and it takes years to develop a pipeline of clients.

If so, I know credco for us sends someone to our office to make sure we are compliant.When we boarded on the IM side it was intense but I actually am glad to go through that process, it means they are serious about compliance.

Let me know how things work out for you.

If things work out, we'd like to have at least 1 additional property before the end of the year and have 8 in 8 years.

I was touring the property when they were home and they asked me how the living situation was gonna work out, I explained that my loan stated that I had to live on the property for a year, and the tenant next door was on a year lease & he was month to month so he was going to have to leave.

I don't have enough details to know whether it's a good move for you, but I think my numbers work out better when I'm the lead.