If you do not know anyone in your area personally envolved in the rental business I would find someone who owns multiple rentals and offer to take them to lunch.During that time I would let them know what your plans are, and ask if you could do some work for them in exchange for a hands on education about the rental business.

Learning first-hand can really influence the direction you'll take.What do you do for a job, if you don't mind my asking?

If you want to lose the house, you can try to work a short sale or have an experienced investor work out short sale for you to take the house off your hands.

I hope one day I can lend my hand for help to you as well as you lend yours to me, thanks for your time and have a wonderful biggerpockets day!

Two things.When creating a partnership no matter how you legally wrap it up consider what happens if someone dies, gets divorced, is sued for something unrelated, is injured if that person is hands on, etc.

If we could all just focus on the important tasks at hand we would probably all have "Bigger Pockets" :lol:

In Ohio it would be a violation of the State law for the host to do anything but hand out flyers.

I have a little bit of hands on experience from my first property.

It is courteous to make such a call, however as a contractor I can count on one hand the amount of such calls that I have received in 10 years.

On the other hand, it would be hard to get over the rough patches in a flip without the full time job income.