And by purchasing new you'll be basically eliminating capital expense items for years.

This will usually be an excel sheet, or maybe something fancier, that will outline, item by item, everything that needs to be done, parsing out every item, labor, materials, etc. 

I would be happy to connect with you on the phone to learn more of your situation and the amount I would recommend for you.

This was also a 35/65 profit split with a JV partner so the profit was small, but lots of lessons learned.

Ready to learn and get to work!!!

This should include how and where they pay rent, how to get in touch with you for maintenance items and any other important information.

If you want to learn more about the practice (and art) of safely and securely finding and funding a PML to see if it's for you, check out my book on BiggerPockets called Lend to Live: Earn Hassle-Free Passive Income in Real Estate with Private Money Lending. 

For your situation I would investigate some of the virtual brokerages a live broker with the fit feel and learning you after would be best However the virtual options offer deep archives if your a self learner it will come down to ymhiw you work and learn beat and what the brokerage would accept all the bestTim

Seems like a decent program, I will want to learn more about the underlying assets they are lending on and borrower criteria. 

If you can reasonably expect to get another offer that is matching or higher, go back to market and by all means disclose what you have learned.