First here's my situation; I've been a contractor/business owner for the past 13 years.

Do you enjoy your work as an appraiser?

As a BP fan I really enjoy learning about real estate and plan to, in the very near future begin investing myself. 

So many ways to go about this but I've been enjoying immersing myself with knowledge through podcasts, books, and the mistakes of others from meeting RE investors at REIA and meetup groups.

so long story short, I had an A/C leak... got the leak fixed but the water that cane out got under the floors.. the tenant put in the request to my PM and my PM’s flooring contractor estimated a total of $1900...

I wanted to see if anyone has any good recommendations for licensed contractors in the Essex County NJ area?

Seriously, you were supposed to hire contractors to make your property loanable.

I walked the property with a contractor and understand a permit will need to be pulled for the work but one thing we weren't completely sure about was adding an address to the building.

The short version is he would handle managing the rehab and contractors etc, I would make an initial loan to the company and acquire both the short term money and long term refinancing money, as I can still get the conventional since I’m under my 10 limit.

I am looking into getting my first flip property soon.I was wondering if I should have my contractor walk a few properties with me before I get a property under contract or if I should have the deal first based on my own rehab assumptions?