Just reach out to real estate agents "by phone" is key so they know you're are the real deal by the way you talk and present the idea.

I feel the key is to have good relationships with your "boots on ground" building a solid team of cleaners and handyman to help you make it happen!  

Turn-key vs. value-add?

Maybe set up some key word alerts to help you track down those threads and see what others are doing.

Learn the basics of cooking now -- it really is one of the main keys to living cheaply later.

Now that you have the knowledge and presumably some money to work with, the key is to pick one strategy and go all in with it (at least for now).Here's one option for you: You already both have steady paychecks to fund your current lifestyle, so more income is not necessarily the issue right now, first you may want to focus on reducing your expenses.

So if I have a tenant that is paying $400 per week to catch up and does so for 6 weeks, but then misses week 7, I would like to be able to cut them some slack and allow them to finish catching up. but if they then pay weeks 8 through 12 and subsequently stop paying altogether, I can't enforce that Stipulation Agreement because it is more than 30 days from the first breach?

So if I have a tenant that is paying $400 per week to catch up and does so for 6 weeks, but then misses week 7, I would like to be able to cut them some slack and allow them to finish catching up. but if they then pay weeks 8 through 12 and subsequently stop paying altogether, I can't enforce that Stipulation Agreement because it is more than 30 days from the first breach?

The key to being a wholesaler or investor is to have exclusivity.

Does the new one replace the old one, or are they different altogether?