However, since my family and I have worked with Shawn I would like to say that he is excellent and very professional.

You also have an excellent idea with the washable paint. 

@Marty Johnston is giving you excellent advice.

Nicole Ashey that's an excellent way to get exposure.

I pass a house all the time that is a vacant house (starting to fall apart, unkept, notice on window from county, mail piling up, ect.) that would make for an excellent flip in a desirable area.

David is correct, Kansas City is an excellent market.

How are these excel spreadsheet based nois looking when you have to wait 60 days to get voucher accepted/turnover.

I use an excel spread sheet I've built over the last two years that works great for me.

What I do bring to the table is time, dedication, impeccable research skills, a passion for dry details and an excellent memory, which is a neat party trick and comes in handy way more often than you might think.

The managing broker at the office I work is a faculty at the college I work for and was my professor while taking real estate classes, all the real estate faculty are agents for the same brokerage, and there are plenty of former students who also work at the brokerage.