I am ready to do any work – such as painting, small repairs, legwork – searching and calling contractors negotiating price, setting appointments, searching internet/county offices for Tax records and such.Right now I am looking for experience on how to look for deals, what is the best way to negotiate prices, what risks are ok to take and what are not, and making contacts with people, learning true costs of materials and labor and other tricks of a trade.I would be willing to put few thousands of my own money but that is depending on situation.

Many others would have waited to invest after making the transition into married life, so I commend you on having a backbone, a brain (for doing the due dilligence), and multi-tasking (for lack of a better term) What I find most interesting is to go back and read your initial posts about being unsure about whether to proceed, and then to read the follow-ups about the tremendous progress you made.

I would like to invest in the RE sector of the US economy but all the research that I have read on the internet points to foreigners paying a significantly higher percent of tax on rental property income than locals (30% withholding tax on Gross Income vs 15% on Net Income).I am not concerned about the benefits of a foreign corporation owing a US LLC and thereby not paying estate tax.

I'm currently in the military and forward-deployed on a ship, so I won't be back for a couple more months... and in the meantime I'm trying to get as much done on the internet as I possibly can. 

I was a train heading down hill that didn't want to be stopped.5) Day 2, they spend the first hour shooting down any naysayers that might of done some research on the internet.

If you prefer someone else to handle the entire rehab process so that you can focus on other tasks at hand then a good GC or project manager is extremely valuable.  

It allows me to easily turn things over to our accountant at the end of the tax year, run very customized reports to see where our money is going, and the program is available online so anywhere I have internet access, I can access the program.  

However, given certain context clues from our conversation, it's also likely that he isn't very internet savvy, so it may be more difficult for him to get full use out of the GIS map.

With that, I understand I will need to keep corporate minutes to remain compliant.Can you suggest any software that can help with this task?

.- Look for a fairly large management company with at least 7 employees that specialize in various tasks (showing, leasing, repairs, collections, bookkeeping, etc).- Make sure that property management, NOT SALES, is the only thing that this company does.