I am now in the process of contacting a GC and getting to know who can do what at a fair price AND ON TIME.My question: has any experienced flipper ever partnered up with a neophyte and showed him the ropes.

Review their management agreement.

As this will be untraveled territory for me an experienced agent is a must.

I have seen some with varying reviews on Yelp.

Unless he has connection to a very good GC experienced in the area and referred by people he knows, this spells out a bad situation.  

I guess my question to you more experienced investors, should I should I buy the home now and assume the issue won't be significant considering the past 13 years of ownership, or should I apply for the conditional use permit and only purchase the home when that is approved?

She then made the original listing with realtor.I keep hearing conflicting information from people experienced in the market and I'm trying to sort out the gems.

Have you experienced any hate like this because you choose to invest or manage real estate?

Thanks for the inputs everyone, and thank you for not taking my questions seriously, as I'm sure for anyone slightly more experienced these questions may have looked a bit silly :) I've gotten more than what I expected to learn from this post, it seems that I didn't even properly differentiate private vs hard money!

Lots of competition for Listing from more experienced Brokers / Agents!