If you were to have skills to manage the rehab or contributed financially then you would be more than a wholesaler. 

I am developing my skills with 3D photography/tours as well as graphic design and digital marketing.Any ideas on whether I should live for free in Lake Tahoe and work as a real estate agent in a competitive/low volume market or move back down to my college town of Santa Barbara and pay rent while building a real estate career there?

Your audience will organically grow and you will start to build a network.

But, those rules of thumb and shortcuts will be specific to your location, the types of houses you're doing, the finishes you use, the types of contractors you're using, your negotiating skill etc.In other words, the shortcuts and rules of thumb that I have for my houses in my area with my contractors and my finishes and with my negotiation ability are going to be different than yours.Learn the process, practice, and it will get easier.  

We personally organized a full team to clean, renovate, stage and sale this property and learned how much help an investor friendly agent could have helped with every step of the way.

I am a new investor and am wondering what is the best way to keep track of all income and expenses and how do you go about keeping yourself organized?

My wife and I where looking a little further south but I’m sure that she would have a better time finding a good job in that area.I’m actually trying to decide whether or not to get my real estate license here in California, I have so little experience or skill to offer people like yourself and it seems getting my license may be one of the better ways to get something worth offering.

They claim that they focus on the development of the building, not the management and that's why they aren't organized on receipts, better financial reporting, etc.Am I just being paranoid here?

Interested to know how you learned and how long it took you to acquire the skills necessary for being successful in PPC marketing?

People skills.