I recommend you include some of your key qualification criteria in the advertisement.

I would recommend consulting with a tax professional to gather more details to confirm this based on your situation.

I would recommend against being the GC unless you are confident of doing more than one effort.  

Any advice or tools you’d recommend would be really helpful!

Hopefully, you find it helpful and qualifies us to assist you with your goals:)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.Property Class will typically dictate the Class of tenant you get, which greatly IMPACTS rental income stability and property maintenance/damage by tenants.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a property in Class D area to Class A standards, what quality of tenant will you get?

Out of curiosity, what custodian did they recommend to you?  

I see that you recommend NOT having my mom deed the house over to me in order to borrow against it.

It's been burning a few people lately, and that's why I definitely dont recommend it. 

Tim, thank you for the book recommendation.

I would recommend that you get out to local meetup events, as that is where you will make the really deep connections to help you get rolling.