If you don't have money or skills, go work for a property manager or become a realtor and learn the ropes while you save some cash.Remember, real estate investing over the long term will create wealth for you and your family. 

Our tax sales create such a mess!

And during the depression they used these deeds to these lots to induce people to pay to go to the movies.In the northern CA and southern Oregon area they created more in town type lots  Clear lake being a famous one.. about 100,000 lots were created there from 1915 to 1930...

Not sure if this helps or hurts Raleigh's chances for HQ2.https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2018/06/26/amazon-to-create-more-than-1-500-jobs-in-nc-with.html

In my opinion, it's one in which was recently said on the BP podcast, rather than finding a deal, you have to create one.Over the last 7 days, there have been 2 duplexes I seriously was considering & before I could get in to see it, the realtor said the owners received multiple, cash offers over asking price!

Main goal to create some passive income and see just how far I can go with it.

You're creating inventory that multiplies NOI. 

In other words they will make sure the right boxes are checked, but they won't help or advise you in creating any of those docs.  

But as Brant said above, they are lower risk and safer than mom and pop shops.Strip center's are also a great alternative and as you said, the diversity creates less risk and more opportunity. 

I’ll probably end up looking at all of my responses and creating a comprehensive thread full of these ambiguous questions.