I use the selling guide on a regular basis to research current or prospective purchases.It might be helpful in clarifying a few points that may contribute to your general misunderstanding.

Once the leads start coming in, you'll start to see what produces results and can effectively manage your time from there. 

My husband does appliance/plumbing/boiler/electrical repairs, turns apartments, does inspections, deals with contractors, and troubleshoots on a regular basis.

But I told him it happens in the Hood's of America fairly regularly.

You may need to close with a hard money lender and the refinance with a regular institutional lender.Cody Cox - PresidentNorthwest REIA

They haven't quite decided how their going to deal with new landlords, as they don't have a regularly scheduled class yet.

There's so little inventory regular retail buyers are buying houses that need work, because it's all they can find. 

Eventually with the types of deals that we were producing caught the eye of people that knew investors and they started to refer them to us.

It sounds like massive action producing massive results.  

We deal in metro Atlanta on a regular basis and there are great deals to be had as there has shown to be a growth of people moving inside the perimeter.