I met a broker in my local REIA and he came to me with a proposal to pay him for acquisition of foreclosure properties from auction.

We (New Western Acquisitions) are sponsoring tonights event.

I'm currently finalizing my business plan for 2016, and we are about to use our contractors and key contacts to start on the implementation of that plan.

Finally, having read all you can, after speaking to as many people that you can, and after fully knowing all the details of both the investments and the investors, then have confidence that you are stepping into higher responsibilities and higher returns.

I would start marketing those upon acquisition 

Finally, use all these numbers, including purchase price, repairs, rental income, expenses, and sales price or cash out refi after X number of years (you can play with these parameters) and calculate IRR on the series (can use the excel function to do this) ... this is your total return, over the life of the investment, including ALL sources of profit.

Finally started my housing search after a lot of research but haven't had any luck finding an agent that is right for me.

I think it was Michael Blank and I think it was InvestFourMore with Mark Ferguson, a CO realtor I know of from BP here.Michael charges an 'acquisition fee'.  

What is your strategic plan to manage acquisition and renovation.

Use it as an equity stretcher in your other deals.Meaning, it becomes part of other deals and traded as if it add value X as part of the consideration.You would structure your offer in other deals as a "must take" in order to increase the perceived value of your offer on the new acquisition property.