Start with BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginners Guide (free).

Once completed, the goal is to get them rented and then pull money out of each house to build a high performance spec.

The initial cash flow is a beginner’s metric.  

If these homes were such great investments, they would keep them for their own portfolio.When you purchase an investment, calculate your returns based on actual performance.

It could very well be its all lost but seems like a big jump to conclusions by investors that basically did very high interest rate investing and expected  CD like performance..

@Chris Kay finding a quality, cost-effective contractor is extremely difficult:(There are thousands of contractors that are great talkers, but rarely perform within budget.Standard bait & switch is to lowball a bid, then once they get started all sorts of things "pop up" that somehow their bid didn't cover.

We invest in non performing loans and do some private lending as well.

Transaction volumes will continue to be slowed, but homes that are priced in the $160,000-$250,000 range continue to perform best right now for resale.

Are you willing to mentor/ teach a beginner?

It forces me to get real familiar with my business and how my properties are performing.