They recommended looking at the book "Real Estate Investing in Canada: Creating Wealth with the ACRE system", although I haven't read it myself. 

To my understanding I could create a power of attorney however in the area I really don't have any one who I trust to execute.

I would not ever put myself in your shoes or try to understand your situation - what I am sharing is that sometimes it is best to look for a solution that creates the best win/win and look at what you could lose (from all angles) after you identify all the routes you can take.

Again, no legitimate lender is going to be over 70% ARV.Its not easy to do, but you need to create better margins and the rest of your issues will be solved.

@Jeremy Petersen, most experts feel that legal entitlements to create options for best and highest use do not disqualify you from a 1031. 

I need some help getting from my current spot to living self sustaining and below my means.

I’m interested in knowing how many BP members have invested in businesses the way Ray Kroc did to franchise and in actuality create a real estate portfolio.

Our agents create templates so we can simply change the property address and offer amount for each.

I need some help getting from my current spot to living self sustaining and below my means.

Typically, they would either:plan to manage it themselves (i.e. new home but same city) and create a lease, post a rental sign, post it online, etc., orcontact a property manager (or property management company) to take it overOnly owners that want to get burnt will call their buy/sell agent.