My budget is in the $200-250K range.Please feel free to let me know if additional details would help, and thank you in advance for your time and advice! 

Offer to do his inspections for free in exchange for some education on how to find, analyze, and fund deals.

Feel free to shoot me a PM to discuss, I am happy to share knowledge and answer any questions you might have

Yes, I’ve got a mortgage on it now, but my cash flow went from only $1000/month to $2400/month and I picked up 3 more properties basically for free with no out of pocket cash to buy them. 

cost of doing the deal. 

If not some free methods are using truepeoplesearch or cyberbackgroundchecks.com

Avantstay's services cost money because they provide value.

Finding a good account and bookkeeper wasn't difficult and using online registered agents was way more cost effective.

Feel free to DM me if you're interested. 

I'd recommend looking at costs. your build cost is going to be well over other homes because of the fixed costs like slab, Hvac, roof, etc. check the market drivers and weight the benefits of short term versus long term. long term is no furniture and help pays mortgage but at this size it doesn't really cover everything. we didn't find a lot of economies of scale in single family detached. can you build more than one unit?