Is there anything wrong with caller a contractor to see if they will meet me at a house I am looking at to give me an idea on costs?

I am just nervous because I dont want anything to go wrong and I definitely dont want to end up in a bind to where I cannot afford to take care of my own personal priorities.

I would do a couple checks on this property management company, I would ask them if they could contact some of their clients to get a reference on how they are as a company (that's if they let you), I would go out and visit the company's office (there is just a feeling you get if it's right or wrong), you can check the real estate commission out there in Florida and see if the company is listed, and the other option is that you could check that counties records for the Doing Business As (DBA). 

If not, the two CPAs you spoke two are most likely wrong.

I don't want to give the impression your Realtor is doing anything wrong, I'm just saying do enough homework that you are educated in the process before you sign papers.

In my non-professional opinion a majority of the crimes happening there require you to be involved with the wrong people.

Newbie military investors (which I still consider myself to be one) really need to understand what may go wrong in real estate because they are in the military such as PCSing (especially shortly after arriving to a new area) and having strategies to deal with it, deployment/surge deployments (also something that us Navy folk call an Individual augmentee or IA), landlording at a distance or landlording in general, and overseeing rehabbing without being able to visit the job site on a regular basis. 

My logic,correct me if I am wrong, but if they can get done in a month or 2 verses us 6months.

Zillow gets the information from a variety of places...public land records, MLS pushes....but there is a good deal of information on there that is wrong.

Please dont get me wrong, the material is probably good.