Check around/google for legal aid societies, volunteer lawyer programs, if your courts offer any assistance programs for landlord/tenant help, etc.

Now that I have my salesperson license and will soon sign with a brokerage, I would like to start marketing myself and hopefully getting a few sales in, which could aid towards the investment property.

There is the valuation You, an investor, would do to underwrite the potential deal and there is the valuation (appraisal) a real estate lender would use for their loan decision.I'll respond to the appraisal valuation, since that is what I am assuming you are referring to.An str is a commercial enterprise (i.e. a Business).

My attorney said each eviction now gets delayed because free legal aid gets brought in so his rates went up.  

We have had so MANY lemonades turns into lemon aid that our entire business plan has evolved in the last 3 years.This is an amazing place because the only thing everyone agree with is real estate.

Gardening, hunting, fishing, first aid training, house repair expertise? 

It's helped me narrow down what I'm looking for in a job, and that (as of right now) is a Real Estate Acquisition Analyst.After researching the experience that is expected to assume this role (such as Argus Enterprise and Excel), I'm having trouble pinpointing entry-level jobs in real estate that would involve these programs and give me the experience I need.

The truck is a rental through enterprise so we decided to let enterprise handle it.

Yes, this student loan forgiveness is just a band aid.

Since you are going to proceed without the aid of professionals or title insurance in most auctions, you should accept that "you are on your own" as part of the cost of doing this business (if this were easy everyone would do it)--and read up on the statute, the local rules, the title report and (for goodness sake don't forget) the neighborhood, the property and the owner.As far as the good deals not showing up a the auction, that's usually TRUE!!!