Learn real estate before trying to deal in real estate.Your insurance agency is a great affiliate operation to real estate, be even better if you got your RE license!

Look for local Coin Operated Laundry Equipment Dealers (Speed Queen, IPSO, Dexter, Whirlpool).

My "real" job allows me to work from home almost entirely, so we would love to find a place we could call our home down there that also had rental units attached, or the real dream of a large 5-10 room place that we could operate full time as a B&B.

Having a stand-alone entity also makes it so much easier to keep the operations of your rental property(ies) separate from your personal finances. 

I may profit by rehabbing because I (a) am a licensed GC (b) own a full retail renovation company that creates a volume i can (c) leverage with manufacturers for direct supply and volume discounting and by which (d) I have the full management and operational team at my disposal to perform on my properties at cost.

I understand there may have been confusion when I assumed that others were operating on that understanding. 

Im a Norwegian investor that will soon be once again operating out of Dubai(7.

Also, have a talk with the PM to let him know you would like to be more involved in the operations.  

If the property is only operating at 60%, then I would base my offer on that current operational level and not the "potential" of 100% Occupancy. 

@Alex HamiltonHere is a link to see what you can expect from these auction sites... this one is specifically HUBZU but Auction.com operates the same pretty much.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/15...I have seen in my market where the property price is ran up in the last 15 mins of the auction then the property comes back on the auction over and over...