For ex, workers for Habitat for Humanity and when purchasing a property for a direct family member, you are allowed to work on the home or manage work without a contractor's license even though you personally will not be living there; otherwise, the owner/investor needs a license. 

So far, biggerpockets has certainly proven to be very useful, with many informative resources and friendly people!

@James PaisleyBP is full of useful resources such as forums and blogs.

BP is full of resources.

You will find this a tremendous resource for all of your real estate needs.Wishing you the best!

He stated, he would be willing to mentor/collaborate our ideas on the project and let me use his local resources to rehab the property at a reduced cost if I were to purchase the house at the AS/IS price of $97,500.  

I'm currently considering taking action on recruiting as many private money partners as humanely possible for my RE deals and have thought up taking this route: executing Calling up a couple local financial advisors and private wealth advisors(since these are middle man connections to money) and pitching them my private lending opportunities in which I want advisors to present it to their clients and whichever client wants to do deals with me, I'll have them available for funding my deals and I'll pay a "referral fee" to the advisor for his/her help.

Is there a book or other resources you can recommend that discusses construction loans, bridge loans, and the final stabilized commercial loan (the latter I am well versed in).

@Maurice SmithLocate and attend 3 different local REIA club meetings great place to meet people gather resources and info.

@John O'LearyBP is a treasure chest full of resources.