First thing I will do is make sure a dumpster is there day one and also make sure we have any permits ready to submit once it is officially ours but is there anything else we can really do to get a jumpstart and stay ahead of schedule?

Regardless I would push for getting back your earnest money deposit, any inspection fees, and appraisal costs if you made it to that point.You have some leverage because they cannot technically go under contract with another buyer until your contract is officially terminated.

There's meetups here and there, but nothing like an official REIA that my dad is a part of in my hometown of St.

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A good manager has processes in place and I want to give them authority to handle it so I can spend more time bathing in gold coins.This is the same goal I have for the people I manage for:1.

Given an agent the authority to sign the lease does not change the lease parties - owner/tenant. 

Rick Vallani author of FLIP has lived and flipped in Austin.   

Data sources can be any or multiple of these: MLS (work with a broker), Zillow data services, realtyTrac, your local AHJ (Authority Having Jurisdiction) or county records group, a title company with in-house county property records, companies like coreLogic, eStated, trustee records, etc. 

Since then things have not gone as smoothly as I'd like so I wanted to reach out to other investors to see if its something I'm doing, the area, my PM, etc...I closed on the property in mid-Sept, it needed very little to get it ready for the market, it was officially on the market in early Oct.

(caveat - this same agent represents the seller and brought me the deal, which was not officially on market yet)