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An I work at Lowe's you might have some luck with going to your local home improvement store an go to their commercial services desk, they should be able to put you in contact wtih some good or atleast decent contractors.

One is just a mom and pop store so I know I can just walk over to them and talk with the owner.

The Bigger Pockets book store if full of great books: https://www.biggerpockets.com/store

I believe they are number one in RE in the iTunes store.

I know these years of buying my t-shirts out of the nine cent box at the thrift store (yes, this does exist) will one day have a positive ripple effect on everyone important to me.

@Catherine Barnes  no question rural oregon just like rural WA has very high unemployment.. but the PDX metro area which includes vancouver WA.. job market is robust. anyone who wants to work can work.. anyone not working is not working by choice.there are signs all over the place and banners in front of retail stores looking for workers..

Blast that audiobook/podcast on the way to work, the gym, to the store, back home.

After you have gone through the free info, there are also books available through the Bigger Pockets Store.

I know how you feel when you walk through and look at private items and or personal items.In those cases we just hauled everything to the dump... and got to work. if the old owners are there are in contact of course we accommodated them on retrieving their items.I suspect in this case you would be fine and I personally would not store anything... from the description of circumstances you have laid out.