the thing about mentors is you really want to find someone that is familiar and specializes in the local market you're looking to invest into .

My criteria is someone i can trust not overcharging for each repair or creating a repair to overcharge.

I don't know what the land market is like in Colorado, but in California, there is land that you need to put on the market because the buyer profile is someone who comes out of the woodwork and who you'd never find without putting it out there, so I use platforms like MLS, Crexi, AIR, Loopnet and Costar.

Someone telling you that you need asset protection, but cannot tell you in what instance you could possibly be sued for that insurance would not cover you.

In my experience, the contractor needs to be someone who is busy and that comes with a price.

With these items, we may be better to help, also like someone else said a house hack at 95% LTV might be tough depending on rents/PP. 

Your post shows that you are not ready and much, much too likely to hand money to someone to do it for you which will surely lose you all of your money.

I'd contact them have them arrange to have someone come out and move the contents into storage so you can get possession of the place. 

My concern is that someone created this new term (medium-term rental) that was completely unnecessary and it's causing confusion.

As someone else has mentioned I would talk to your Realtor to determine if there are any Michigan-specific rules/regs regarding asbestos siding.