I just want it to work and be a positive experience because I know that will keep me motivating to continue investing and building my portfolio.

This sort of thing is market specific.

While Pace Morby seems to know his stuff, he puts out incredibly long videos and I didn't have time to sort through all that fluff & didn't want to pay 8k to be in his course. 

Find the best local real estate investor meetups that have no pitches and you will increase your knowledge, camaraderie, and motivation ten-fold.

Half the states do not even require any type of Disclosure whatsoever.But as sort of a baseline, damage that has been repaired does not need to be disclosed in most states.

The associates I know at the moment aren't in this realm and I would like to have some sort of guidance moving into this next steps.So I'm looking for developers/mentors to help me move forward.

That kind of errand is not the sort of thing they are paid to do and our liaison wasn't able to devote enough time to the problem on a daily basis to make it happen which I completely understood but it was still frustrating. 

I'm very trainable, detail oriented, and highly motivated.

Find your "why" and let that be your motivation!

Any luck on motivating realtors in the area to actually get operating expenses/lease agreements for Jackson County specifically George?