Title has to reside with some entity or entites, be they just legal or warm-blooded entities. 

That rent would have easily covered the cost of hiring professionals, the job would be done better, and you would have saved yourself three years of blood, sweat, and tears to focus on your next investment.There is a time for learning and DIY, but you have to be smart about it.

If you want to manage your own property, what do you use for phone alternative to your cell phone?

Also want our staff to be able to communicate with tenants from their mobile devices using an app and not their personal cell phones.Would also be nice to auto generate emails and or text messages when rent is past due.

I’m not in your field of expertise in the lending space, but the lenders I have given repeat business to typically have taken a few moments and let me explain my situation to see if we would even be a fit for each other, before, trying to make me fill out some long application that asked for everything short of a blood sample.

Being able to pick up fix and flips and/or buy and holds for a sub $200k price point with plenty of room for value add has been the life blood of the investors here.

I would build as large of a pile of cash as you can and wait until there is blood in the water.

So, I'd be asking myself questions like: "how much of my own money, and my own time, blood, sweat and tears am I willing to put into this thing to get $60k of equity? 

Bad, Bad blood down the road. 

Quote from @Bill Brandt: thanks for the clarification, the parcels being sold are "better than average" the parcels being sold are on a private lane,  with mountain views,  have natural gas,  electric, fiber internet, and cell phone service available.