- The market is in a little bit of a lull right now (buyers market), its a great time to buy, but slower time to sell (my primary business is flipping houses) I can supplement my flipping business by providing project management services/consulting, helping investors find discounted properties, etc. etc.

Geographically speaking anything you could drive to and from in a day would be a great start.

Paulette, it is good to call out these bad contractors and unfortunately you are caught in a bad situation on what to do, start by a small threat that you will contact the BBB and report a claim if he does not show some progress, or if you know an attorney, maybe a simple letter from one may get him worried and he may start showing up.

Welcome Drake,You've landed in a great community of lenders, investors, agents, CPAs, Attorneys and wholesalers.

I can’t tell the tenants above to keep their kids in a stroller indoors.

I'd love to connect in a few months' time (or before if preferred) to possibly locate a property in your area and start my REI journey around October this year.

I haven't figured out how to reply directly in a forum yet. =)However, this is still early, I've only had access since Friday. 

@Anthony VaganosI haven't checked this in a long time.

You can find online which larger institutions are buying in a specific area and try and reach out to them.

Otherwise, you can also invest in a scraping software that will pull the info you need auto-magically!