anyway crawled down off the steep roof,,,was all by myself,,,and drenched the ladder and roof. 

If a muddy spot is of large concern, I'd toss some rocks on it.

I feel like I am in a great spot to start, but there are so many options available (SFH, Wholesaling, MBH/Parks) that I don't know where to begin.

The few times I have gone to Lowes or Home Depot, I always get a front row spot because it is so dead.

As a small business my resources are not unlimited and a couple of late payments can put me in a tough spot.

Also, the prop. had a raised foundation so if anything could get flooded it would be the crawl space.

Spot on Bill!

If a friend can not be found locally, then a good mentor will save you a lot of money (even if it costs a little), but they should not stay with you, but direct you on how to improve your building at those leaky spots and maybe even return (after a while) to make sure you have not sprung any leaks eslewhere.But in my start I just went out and did without any help to prove to my brother that what he was thinking of could be done, but he did not need the GURU's supervision and "mentoring".I succeeded in getting started in investing this way and proved to myself that even us doers will at some point need to stop doing and READ to educate ourselves on how to stop those leaks or we will indeed fail as well.So wheather your start as "hands on" or "reading" , both will be needed to be done and I will add one more phase to prevent failure and that is the use of COMMON SENSE to know when to stop and get help (for us doers) or stop reading and get started (for the readers).Plus the use of that COMMON SENSE to look back and realize you have leaks or havent yet started instead of just continuing doing the do'ing or reading and not realizing that you are going down in flames.

I'll find out soon enough I guess.I had the inspections done yesterday, and we found a few nasty surprises: - termites in crawl-space, remediation 1K.- water in crawl-space due to poor grading (and some other easily fixed issues like fixing downpipes and cleaning gutters etc), also, all the insulation is falling out from under the floor, and mold etc is starting to grow but no serious rot issues yet.

Call up a few pest control companies and they will tell you the cost for an inititial treatment and follow-up treatments.One problem is that whatever is put out initially has no effect on the egg sacks, only the crawling roaches.