I did not like the course I took, Holloway Institute, so I would not recommend that. 

Websites like the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) could be good starting points to find reputable professionals with expertise in this area.

Sitting between Atlanta and Nashville it has seen QOZ and institutional investments over the past few years.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) requires many financial institutions to maintain, report, and publicly disclose loan-level information about mortgages. 

Quote from @Rich Emery:  Yes definitely, find a hard money lender that does a lot of "fix and flip" loans, many will also do some construction financing on a smaller, non-institutional level

You will not typically be competing with institutional investors who can typically take smaller margins because of their scale.

Listing prices have jumped over the last year for both residential and commercial mainly due to the media attention to real estate investors - individual and institutional - as well as the continued low interest rates.

The question is,  are there any financial institutions that'll give a construction or small business loan to get it started?

Most of them are achieved through traditional lenders and institutions like banks, but some are accomplished through less traditional means.

All the financial institutions I'm aware of, @Ed O., including Wells Fargo, will let you download your transactions in a QBO file for free.