Readers are advised to seek professional advice.

My offer, whatever it is I can help you with on the actual flipping process, writing a scope, avoiding CO's, measuring correctly for waste, managing a project, negotiating trade cost, and a network of vendors for projects to boot.

Or should i go the old fashion route, networking with people in my area and trying to get some sweat equity deals going that way. 

I am looking to make new connections and network.

I just figure that there are so many experienced investors on this network, so it'd be interesting to hear different perspectives.

I greatly admire the accomplishments of seasoned professionals and would be honored to gain insights from experiences.

Readers are advised to seek professional advice.

As others have mentioned, your income is above $150,000 which doesn't allow you the exception to deduct passive losses.Since you are unable to claim real estate professional status, the losses remain passive and ineligble to offset other forms of income.The good thing is that they get carried forward and eligible to be used in the future when you sell the property or have passive income.

You should have made the tenants responsible for the landscaping from the beginning, then you could hold them financially responsible if they fail.At this point, you should probably hire a professional to recover the lawn.

As another example, some properties have owls that needs to be professional removed before you can build on top.