Ideally, one presentations for five different strategies is what I am looking for.

There are a few non-negotiable items like a new roof and refinishing the hardwood floors, but I will be able to cheat on the kitchen and the bathroom.As far as an ideal tenant, I really just want a family that has stable income and won't destroy the house but will also go the extra mile and look after the house and neighborhood.

Small footprint mini PBX with auto attendents.

Do you have an integrated system that captures the leads, auto emails them and creates a drip campaign all in one?

However, scenarios we will face are more likely to be tenants like i deal with that are pretty much paycheck to paycheck and dependent upon a contingency fee lawyer who will soon find out if there is anything worth pursuing before exiting the case.Regarding an LLC per property or an LLC at all, the advice was again the same.

Real Estate Investing seems like the ideal investment to me considering the residual income, leverage, appreciation, etc.I would really appreciate advice from anyone on BP that's willing to give me some.What books should I read?

What would be ideal for us small operators with say 3-25 units is to have just ONE place to go to for all of those kinds of needs. 

They are off the market. and seem to need quite a bit of renovations to bring up to a value where Id be able to rent out for a nice cash flow, and attract ideal tenants.

For the most part fixer deals will require cash or hard money and both cases will require a good amount of cash.Setting up an auto search is simple and takes 5 minutes so I am sure many Realtors would be willing to do it if he is not.Nobody likes wasting their time, but it sounds like he may be wasting yours because he does not seem to have the knowledge you are either seeking or expecting from a Realtor.

Until you get to know an area (from actually investing there), you'll have to rely very heavily on your comps and get many opinions from your team.Since it's very different working with an investor that a retail buyer, hopefully your sister-in-law has worked with investors - or reads the biggerpockets real estate agent's ultimate guide to working with investors found here:http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/08/24/real-estate-agents-working-with-investors/Ideally you'll want to find an area of the city where the average days on market for rehabbed properties is fairly low for a quick resale and there is a good spread between "wholesale" and "retail" properties.Good luck - let us know how it goes.Larry