I would like to find a partner that wants to handle the operational day to day aspects of the business and let me bring the funds and financial background.  

It is crucial to use an equation like this to find out if purchase is viable.  

A) your local marketB) good market has value in what aspect of real estate your interested in. for example if you want buy and hold it has to be more value for a renter to rent a house than to buy one.

IMO, key aspect of Victorians is to stay true to the style. 

Having only one aspect such as land may not be sufficient in an equitable exchange for the economic benefit for the use of money.If someone has no management skills, no experience, no capital or income, and can't contribute anything to improve the land as labor, but has 1,000 acres and wants to borrow $1,000.00 that is not an equitable exchange. if any lender did lend in that situation it would be a predatory transaction.

Will work the numbers over on that crucially important point.

I tried educating myself on different aspects of a mixed use business/apartment investment property but the terms and phrases I used kept yielding irrelevant results.

So like anything don't expect he will be interested in the same aspects as you but overall get buy in and use his perspective. 

Each month, we are provided with 1-2 new topics involving some aspect of real estate investing.

Hey guys,So I'm a month or two away from completing my move to the United States, Pittsburgh specifically, and I need a whole bunch of help figuring out what I should pursue once I get over there, so I've started doing some research.A bit about me:As per the title, 27, moving to the US from New Zealand, and have around $100k cash at my disposalFiance lives in the US, and makes around $40k a yearHave experience flipping houses, done 4 to date, I'm competent at and confident with most aspects of construction and project managingHave experience being a landlord, although I suspect I'll have to relearn most of it with the different laws and suchI have no college level or professional qualifications, I just finished high school, attended university but dropped out to pursue real estateA very fast learner and willing to lead or work under someone.So that's basically my background.