The older me has less time on the clock and is weary of long learning curves while the younger me thought he would love forever and enjoyed learning new things. 

I would concentrate first and foremost on getting out of consumer debt. 

I've built businesses including my own startup and developed new consumer products.

I don't care what situation the bank or property holder is in; this is unscrupulous, misleading, and deceitful practices.If we don't get back to the original acceptance price, I plan on reporting it to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. 

The most time consuming and involved acquisition strategy of buying distressed, fixing up, and getting rented to tenant has the highest return.  

The services you listed above are exactly the things that consume my time and take me away from other more profitable things.  

The only distinctive difference is that instead of a consumer as the seller, you have a bank (investor) as the seller.

https://www.oag.state.md.us/Consumer/landlords.htm

The things we face with each project is to Revitalize the houses ability to be bought by the consumer or sold to an investor for a rental property, we are looking at doing 6 of these renovations in the next 6 months. with the sale of these homes in better shape than any other house on there block it will start a domino effect in the community, thus bringing in more houses, and soon the whole area will have increased it value.

I have been consumer-debt free for 3 years and it is fantastic.