I am looking to continue my education in real estate, try to minimize expensive mistakes, seek mentorship with people that are willing to offer legitimate information/guidance and not trying to "sell" me on something, better understand how to work with investors to fund the projects I want to tackle, and over all guidance around how I can take my competitive, detail oriented, results driven, hard charging work ethic and attitude to provide my family financial freedom.

I wanted to see MLS properties just to see what homes are looking in my area and what the current style in neighborhoods are.

Fine a VA who is great at Excel and research, and is VERY detail-oriented.

I want to rent the log cabin out, turn the store into a duplex style house ( 10 year old building that looks brand new), and almost rent out another building that was converted into a house next to ball fields.In our area ball fields are worthless, there's no cash flow anymore like we have in the early 2000's, so I would like to build another 4-5 fourplexes or something in that nature.

I'm a great multitasker and very detail oriented.  

You can see expense/income ratios for different styles of properties in different areas of you market to help fine tune where you invest.You can create a network of people to fix different types of issues from simple maintenance to complex repairs.

Its a competitive market but based on your investment goals and management style you can target specific areas around the city. 

I would also consider throwing small minifridges in the rooms to add to the dorm-style feel you seem to be going for.

Like a 3 tab architectural style.

For example, what geographic area, style of house, multi unit versus single family, size of the house etc.Step 2: Once you know what you want to target, that allows you to then build the list.