I saw a HUD home (now gone) for sale and was wondering would he qualify for the owner occupied bidding period if we joint title the property with him?

I guarantee it will be a lot easier to get a local doctor, dentist, businessman, family member, etc to borrower the funds or to do a joint venture with, to do a flip and it will make the deal more profitable.The question is more, have you done enough reading to know about Exit Strategies, Title, Escrow, Deeds, General Contracting, Taxes, Zoning, Locating a good deal, Selling the property afterwards and a whole slew of other things?

They should ask you about your life stage, what your goals for the property are, how long you want to hold it for, how it fits into the rest of your portfolio, etc.In summary, find someone that shows genuine interest in you as a person.

Also some of the pipe joints are starting to get misaligned. 

I would like to start off by building some capital through joint venture partnerships or possibly wholesale and make my way into flipping!

Instead of putting away 5% a month on each of your properties, maybe change that to 3% and have a joint pool of money for your portfolio that is assigned to pay for Repairs, or Vacancy, or CapEx on each of your properties.  

A joint failed and flooded the lower floor.

If you had genuine web development skills (beyond installing wordpress plugins), is there a way I could leverage this as a newbie investor without a ton of capital?

I genuinely want to know because we're always tinkering with how best to meet our clients needs.

For a new investor starting out with no deals, what do you guys think about a joint venture with an established investor for flips?