The real inflection point comes at around 75 at which point it makes financial sense to hire on-site property management.

In my experience it should not be your responsibility to pay the lien, it will get paid off prior to or at close.With that said, I have represented buyers and have personally purchased properties off of all the auction sites here in CT and in a lot of the cases the title did not come back clean initially.

Great that you joined the site!

There needs to be high inventory of rentals with similar criteria for those sites to be accurate.

Hello @Cerrion Smith, welcome to the site!

He wrote a blog about it and I'll send it to you.

My first moves would be listen to all the Podcast, understand the Real Estate terminology, read books, develop a good mindset, follow blogs and when you get here, attend as much Real Estate meet ups as you can to find a suitable mentor. 

In my opinion you will get 1000x more info from the Bigger Pockets podcast, forums, blogs and books.

Is there any reliable sites that anyone has found to find available grants?

Each site has varying posting rules which doesn’t make it easy or fun but necessary to get the word out.