Is there a certification body that checks your financials ie income and net worth and you get certified?

Don't be too greedy the first time around.I'm also glad that in the body of the text you say "partner" not "investor" as you do in the subject of the post.

I also asked if they know of any body else with properties to reach out to me.

I have seen old septic systems consist of an old car body for the tank and field all rolled into one (BTW cars rust away and the whole thing caves in - also provides zero treatment and discharges raw sewage to the groundwater) Proximity to a well is important.

That hearing is a recommending body and then moves onto the city council or other full board hearing.  

Stay out of Coffeyville Kansas unless you can tolerate riff raff, refinery trash, drugs, thieving prostitutes, meth head squatters, petty criminals, breaking and entering, overdoses and dead bodies in your properties, tenants having adultery with other tenants spouses, walking in on intruders in your STR, 5 homicides in a year in a town of 9500, and other miscellaneous nuisances. 

There are so many laws and regulatory agency rules which role up in the what's considered law, that prevent most of the more common tactics in wholesaling. 

true self insurance actually means that you set up a mineature insurance company for yourself (or your company)  you get licensed with your states insurance regulatory office and you actually pay yourself annual insurance premiums that go into a totally separate account and you don't get to use the money for anything. 

Pascal:Not all provinces in Canada use judicial foreclosure - about half use contractual power of sale.You are not going to find the lists and websites of forthcoming foreclosures here in Canada due to both privacy law and the regulatory/compliance obligations of the lender ... that and mortgage default is less common here.Here you will typically find out about a foreclosed property or mortgage sale a few weeks before the auction when it is published in a local newspaper or the Royal Gazette (or equivalent) for the province.When you see a listing on MLS or Kijiji which indicates the property is a foreclosure, that property likely has already been to auction - and didn't sell - and was subsequently listed with a real estate agent.

I bought from a flipping group and I think they just tried to fill it with a body so it could be rented and cash flowing for the sale.