If anyone could give me advice how to move forward in this endeavor it will surely be appreciated.

You can probably learn it on your own and I'm not sure how being an agent would help.I think starting out as an agent with no experience in selling or even owning real estate would be a difficult endeavor. 

As a tradesman myself with 20+ years of experience I wouldn't get out of bed for twice that amount.Best of luck in your endeavors.

I would be happy to start with 5 to 7, maybe then I can use them as leverage to secure a loan or interests from some investors or partners for future endeavors.

Overall, I'm taking a long view of this endeavor....this is a very expensive deal, but not as bad when I consider the deals that I can roll these net proceeds into and compound from there. 

I have aspirations to be a part time real estate investor, mostly for passive income, but I am not opposed to potentially making it a full-time endeavor sometime in the future.

Feel free to PM me, Nicholas, and best of luck to you in your real estate endeavors.

I feel I am late to the real estate endeavor, but hopefully my skill set puts me at an advantage in that I can take care of most issues myself. 

And that's new information to the seller, you can improve your negotiation position because they are then required to disclose to future buyers is my understanding.On to the technical and again I'm brainstorming out loud here....I have ZERO experience with mud jacking as a permanent solution to slab heaving issues - however I would wonder about the feasibility of this as a 'roll the dice' kind of solution (good money vs value trade off) ...if you buy.One possible solution may be to jack the house and repour which I don't know much about how the bottom plates/wood structural would be tied into the slab - but jacking the house and re pouring sections or all of slab would be an incredibly costly endeavor. 

How can I use this money towards our flipping endeavors without getting hit with a lot of taxes?