If you are brand new, I completely understand your friend's reluctance, particularly if you don't have any skin in the game. 

I'm asking because i'm in the process of starting out and branding is very important to me in all of my other business ventures.

We had just framed, put up drywall, new electrical and put in brand new flooring, of which quite a bit had to be thrown out.

Multiple residencies seems to throw many people for a loop.Definitely looking for someone who looks at the big picture.I have one lead for an enrolled agent, but I'm not that familiar with that designation. 

But you've got to vet well.The other key factor is that both are designed to be passive but stable opportunities with experienced operators (either the national corporation tenant or the DST sponsor) managing the property so you don't have to. 

Most of those coaching programs are primarily designed to help scale a business up and put systems in place but can be a little too much too soon when just starting out.

I've got a keen eye for design/trend and would love to learn about flipping houses for long-term or short-term rentals.

You can set up the system so that the monitoring center will call you or anyone you designate before it calls the police. 

There are not enough engineers working on Maui right now, so the design docs alone are running $3,500+ with a 4-6 week timeline.

I have an eye for design as well as the ability to make it reality.