Find yourself a good investor-friendly real estate agent.Your questions span several competencies:--Sourcing properties--Helping find a contractor--Structuring due diligence contingencies--Assessing valueThis is what real estate agents do. 

Their lack of ethics and competence resulted in significant and avoidable complications that could have been prevented with a more reputable organization.

You are now competing against homes that are 2 years newer and the only way you can compete is on price.

Here in Orlando, we definitely advise investors to proceed with caution, simply because smaller condos compete directly with hotel rooms.

At the top of your screen you will find a section called "Build your Team" There, you can connect with property managers, realtors, lenders, and CPAs that specialize in real estate, and you will find Cincinnati well represented with highly reviewed professionals, by members of BiggerPockets, who are eager to compete for your business. 

Thanks for the kind words @Greg Srader and for sharing your insights here - those are some awesome lessons that a lot of new players can learn from.

You're going to have a very hard time competing at scale with the lender subsidiaries of national builders that have access to the capital markets. 

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Try to find your people in different places and set up a screening system that weeds out the weak players and crybabies.

How many hours it takes is going to depend entirely on the details of the project and how well all of the players involved (including you and your client) work together.If you're really trying to do this at scale and build "unlimited" houses, ditch the bring-your-own-materials plan and start building excellent relationships with contractors, subcontractors, and govt. building departments in the areas you want to build.