@Michael Karl, I agree with Account Closed.  

Please tell me there is a program out there let lets me flip houses and make money without an accounting degree.

Account Closed-Thank you, I will follow up with the city to see what they say.

Account Closed please define what an investment property  would "look like" that you would like to purchase. 

@Lip Meis I agree with Account Closed.

Account Closed is a CPA here on BP and would be able to answer that question.

You can surely go through the "Education" tab under your account's main page that has some valuable links.

Since these will be out of state, I definitely would need to account for a property manager and still obtain positive cash flow.

Are you accounting for things like water/sewer, garbage, electricity for common areas, landscaping, etc, in actual numbers or just using a percentage of rent or are you just adding a certain amount for the incidentals?

They would have no guarantee that you would use the money to buy a property and no collateral (i.e. no way to put a lien on the property) if they were to give you the cash directly.Cash means cash in your bank account.