Otherwise projects often end up over budget then the builder has to get involved to value engineer.

Still no clear evidence they caused the damage.In any case, I've burned enough time on deciding, so I'll just withhold for the keys and refund the rest. 

Too many people try out of State investing here without a good team on the ground and get burned. 

Learn for 18 hours a day, burn the candle on both ends, and learn where you want to invest.

If it has been more than two years and I believe it has you might have to start from scratch with all of the required engineering, soils analysis, foundations designs etc, . etc.

You may be able to get some rehab work but unless you are providing trash bins that niche will be limited.You need to research license and insurance requirements and also going rates so you can reverse engineer your income goals. 

Those might get indexed faster by search engines.

In regards to education, I just had a burning desire to learn the ins and outs of real estate in general.

the ABC's of Real Estate Investing- Ken McElroyPermanently burned his way of doing due dilligence in my brain.Tons of info

Use caution, A lot of people, including me, got burned pretty bad because we felt the need to "get in the market" while it was going up.