It’s an excellent place to start, and can answer many of your questions.

I get excellent returns as a private lender inside my retirement account and hold all RE outside of it.

CPA, Agent, GCs, Stager, Photographer, Title Company) Once you are able to establish good quality members of your team you can start to delegate duties and tasks to the appropriate team members.

I have excellent credit and no debt to speak of, I just over analyze everything I look at and overthink myself out of doing anything regarding starting.

Excellent podcast.  

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae each have some excellent Small-Balance loan programs.

Building up your understanding Excel should be a requirement.

with many years of dealing with foreclosures and investment properties.They should know everything and everyone else you need to pull this off.You need an excellent contractor with a good eye for spotting damage that can't be ignored or repaired later to go with you to the property.Good luck to you.

@Kate AndreevaIRR may be a better calculation (via Excel) if you are really looking to compare this real estate move versus stocks or other investment opportunities.

Type all of contact info you get into an excel sheet and start building your "team."