This will help you understand if you've weathered the storm, or if it's just starting.Walk the properties, and look at all the major stuff... here's a quick list, below, to get you started.  

Here's my situation, I was going to start a position as a project engineer this upcoming Monday with an annual salary of $72,000.

From my perspective, when I started house hacking, I really enjoyed learning about all of the trades, but as you said-  it becomes harder to do all those things while building.  

Start by reaching out to those bigger investors through a friendly email or message, expressing your admiration for their work and your desire to learn.

This post is for seasoned investors.You are starting out and do not have a mortgage, yet.   

This is off topic but can some tell me how to start a topic in this forum? 

Both scenarios are great so you can't wrong unless you start negative cash-flowing on a property.

We are starting our business, and we will love to buy our first investment property in Detroit.

I feel it’s better to start building the foundation early. 

I had a HF offer me $25 million to start, and would go up to around $200 million for buying houses to hold.