They've had a good relationship for the past 3 years so as a win win, they would move so he could sell the townhouse but he would lower rent a bit to $2,900 so it wasn't such a jump in rent.

In other words, I think a partnership where I bring the remodeling know how and sweat, (I have 26 years of experience and I have already created good relationships with subs I trust) and where the investor brings the money to pay for the property and rehab, could be a great fit for the kind of investor who wants to flip properties, but doesn’t want the hassle and stress of the rehab construction.  

Your timing is actually pretty good.

I am wondering if this could be a good first time investment property concidering the following pieces of information?

Good agents will always be worth it

The thing is a lay person doesnt really understand what a title company is doing, so its hard for them to actually gage what is good or bad work.

Good luck!

That should give people incentive to take a good care of appliances.4.

You can generally get a good feel for a company by having a phone call with them but certainly need to be cautious if there is little information about them available.

There's some good courses on Udemy that are very cheap to start learning.