Research ways to use your education to help you qualify for a loan (did you know that some lenders allow college credits that translate directly to the line of work the graduate pursues to count towards work experience, accelerating the borrower's opportunity to get approved for a mortgage?). 

and deal with power lines, water lines and sewer, maybe seal the well. 

He is currently providing direct attention to our issue of finding and closing deals.

It’s worth noting that they can also provide some flexibility by avoiding direct ownership transfers.

I've been allocating based on sf used all direct and indirect costs. 

My suggestion would be to get an investor friendly agent who knows a few local markets and have them guide you in the right direction.

Information like: Do you want to manage the property yourself, or do you want to pay a property management company to do that for you, is important to know because it will start to narrow your options.If you want to be more of an active investor, finding the deal yourself direct from a seller, doing some of the work yourself to fix it up, and then representing yourself to sell it on your own is probably the most active you can be and will give you the highest return in the shortest amount of time.

You can oversee this aspect from the background but don't try to directly engage a GC from out of State without having someone tied to your success there to watch what's going on.

You are going in the right direction. 

They have many servicesWe used them for our living trust -didn’t deal directly with mark but people were Knowledgeable and was easy to work with