With that being said I'd rather not do the latter two and find a lender that will be ok with me paying fees and interest out of pocket.

@Doug Rich, @Justin Mespelt, what I forgot to mention was that we were also offering to pay any appraiser an additional $1,000 on top of their normal fee in order to get our appraisal done.

All of which she was doing at the previous company she worked for.I'll also have her do some administrative task like pulling leads/lists for mailings from county websites, ordering postcards, Maybe answering phone calls... haven't decided on that yet.

This won't help in your decision of whether to pull equity out of your current property, but might help with how you use that cash if you do.I was looking at a SFH I think I can get for about 70k, that's pretty much in move-in condition.

Building was built in the 1960s I believe and has a ground lease (causing the HOA fees to be very high).  

I know that tee box markets and pin get moved all the time, so if I want exact yardage, I pull out my yardage finder to know exactly how far the pin is away.

5K per year per LLC for General Liability insurance as the General Contractor even though I may or may not be able to pull off more flips this year?

But I also know the #1 thing I need to do is take action: what questions should I be asking, what people should I try and pull on my team, what actions should I be taking, etc. 

My contractor has a rental in Mars Hill, he turned it over, put it on Craigslist and had 60 calls in an hour with people offering over asking price to rent it.The local property managers take a 35% management fee on short term rentals and ask for a 20% management fee on long term rentals.  

On Google I see a general price of 1.50 sq ft. to build a house, How much of this is management fees and labor?