I personally recommend checking Columbus OH - lots of job growth, population growth, and major companies moving and developing here.

Is it wrong they tell the investors if asked to say they are "partners", or "contractors" just bidding the job? 

Brandon Turner does a great job going over different strategies in his book "Invest in Real Estate with No (or little) Money Down".

My job is explaining the rules.

His whole selling point is teaching people how to generate enough passive income to quit their jobs.

I lost my job in July.

There is so much that goes in a business, rental rates, rental tax, inventory,  job costing, payroll, business analytic reports etc, QiuickBooks does handle what I have mentioned here. 

You should take a job for the education and not the money.

To address this I took detailed pictures from beginning to end of my most recent flip, documenting that we did a thorough job using quality materials.   

The onboarding was extensive, and I don’t think they do a great job of explaining that most of what they need is related to the banking side of things and actually nothing to do with setting up the software.