My wife's income has increased by 20k allowing us to handle the loan but we still have a unsecured debt slowing our progress.

That being said, a year should be adequate but with fires, there are a lot of factors that could have slowed things down.Good luck and hope things start progressing for you.

Our contractor did nice work, but had some family issues that slowed his progress.

But I have watched several of my friends without a college education be able to progress in the workplace without a college education.

I'm trying to figure out a way to have my friend work for me either as a partner or paying some type of a hourly or rate per job to do things like oversee contractors, meet home inspectors, send me progress videos and possible help me with finding a property management company. 

Please keep me posted on your progress as it sounds like we'd be interested in properties you might decide to flip as opposed to BRRR.Best of luck!

This will let you keep tabs on progress and deal with issues as they come up.If there's an emergency, let the GC know that you're available at 5pm (or whatever time) every day after work and can always be there at that time.

It looks like you're making fast progress to reaching all your goals. 

I have been through the eviction process several times and it's not fun, once it starts you have to let the courts handle things and many times it just adds insult to injury as it progresses. 

Right now west Kensington, Germantown, etc are great, pretty much anywhere in the path of progress.