I laid the groundwork in 2017, but 2018 is when my career’s gonna take off, I’ll start eating right, and I might even meet that special someone.

Thank you for the response @Mark Nolan I am excited to get out there, and start putting in some good ground work!

The husband and grandfather work for the same construction company that does all the ground work, preparations for big developments in Tampa.

Coming to the cost,  almost all of them have two types of offering - 1) Turnkey service similar to the one you referred above that they do all the work and give you the key,   or 2) they provide you the contractor for the groundwork/foundation and you work on getting the permits etc (I personally prefer turnkey option given the limited knowledge or for the first timers).     

I have been basically educating myself and doing the ground work to get started and stay motivated.

@Justin Harding - I did some groundwork on the tax delinquency list for Cook County earlier this year. 

Biggerpockets,I'm researching forming an REI LLC with my partner where the responsibility breakdown would be I provide purchasing capital and he provides the actual boots to the ground work to find deals, execute, and do maintenance/landlord work on them (and find mortgages for us).We're based out of the midwest so I figure we'll look into houses fitting biggerpocket's success models (50% rule etc) in the 50-70k range, ideally with mortgages that require 20-30% down.What is a fair and appropriate ownership breakdown for the LLC?

I am currently focusing on a single out-of-state market, and I hope to bring in some partners or otherwise offer services to other folks in my local California market who want to purchase properties out-of-state.I also appreciate the reports and financial reporting, it made doing my taxes very easy last year and it also helps keep my maintenance guy and I on-track with to-do's and their priority.Sure, theres probably a handful of other tools out there that could fill in different pieces of this puzzle but I wsas hoping to lay the groundwork once and continue at a pace of a couple units per year, and I think it's especially important to have a professional and simple system in place when presenting the processes to a potential partner.Anyways, I am not jumping ship at this point but seeing that my year paid-in-full expires in February, I figured it's a good time to be sure that I liek the product more than any others, as January 1 would pretty much be the perfect time for me to cut the accounting over to another potential system.Does anyone else have things they like or disliek about another service thats at a similar price-point?

This can bridge the cap as a conversation starter as well as lay the groundwork.

The reputations of the cities provide value opportunities for investors that are willing to do the ground work to get to know what areas offer the best returns.