It sounds like you're off to a good start, and I hope that BiggerPockets can help you continue to expand your investing career.Good luck and welcome to the site!

I love their quick development time and access to lots of add-ons (such as IDX, contact pages, and even blogs) that I would have had to build manually.

You might to investigate the lending landscape before you cement your exit strategy---title seasoning/chain of title guidelines are an expanding feature in today's lending enviroment.Regards,Scott Miller

They gave me the access code to go and look at it last night.

You might not be able to gain access and the utilities might be turned off.

It's the amount of funding I would have access to.

I do have access to NOD, REO filings and currently have multiple offers in on REOs, and attempting my first short sale negotiations as well (wish me luck LOL).

Biggest issue right now is understanding how to access capital and how to properly analyze properties.

Search on Hawaii State Judiciary...from the home page you can access necessary court forms, and do a criminal, civil, or traffic records search on locals.

Definitely talk to a local bank and if you want use a mortgage broker who has access to more national funding.