One of the difficulties of this operation would be that I don't live nearby, so I wouldn't be able to slowly pickup the pieces...then again, I suppose I should be reluctant to do this at all if I don't have team members with boots on the ground yet that I can trust with oddball tasks like picking stuff up from Craigslist.

Either you gave them crap materials (eg, your financial house is a mess, like giving a painter crummy paint), or they suck (you provided top notch materials/paint, and STILL got shoddy workmanship out of it), or some combination thereof.What due diligence did you do when you hired that person?

I have a piece of land appraised one year ago for $55,000.00 we have a consolidation loan against the property in the amount of $25,000.00. 

BTW it's the exact same pieces of metal.

The management piece is going to require a lot of effort though.

@Eric Siebert Zillow is just one piece of information and it can vary a lot so don't over emphasize it. 

And it saves the environment.The environmental piece always comes last in a business setting or transaction, but it helps nonetheless and as time goes on we'll sure need to give it more priority out of necessity of the planet.

Here is my piece of advice as I'm starting to go through these groups almost all of them have an angle. 

@Archie Robb I went to the LADBS today and they said that's it's extremely  unlikely that I could add anymore units on this piece of land so you were right.

Because he's older and over qualified for the initial work he'd be doing, while he'd start as a regular employee, over time I'd want to give him a significant piece of the business so he'd be engaged and be a true 'partner' with me in helping me grow what I'm doing.