The people here have a vast amount of knowledge and are more than willing to share their experience and provide sound insight and advice.

Sounds like a short sale is not an option.Buying sub2 and lease optioning to someone handy may be a good option if your okay holding for a few years.

It sounds like you have several of the skills needed.  

It sounds like your plans are progressing in a good way.

Obviously one of the main factors is finding investors, and this sounded like a great opportunity.

Sounds like its irregular hauling though, in which case it would be cheaper to drive a small car and rent a truck when needed.

Sounds like your Board of Health is a little extreme.

Sounds like you have a good plan to get you started!

Talking face to face is much more effective and there are not a lot of investors doing this as it can be a very cumbersome activity.As far as having a hard time finding PM's and GC's go... most of the bad PM's have been run off or put out of business, but many investors expect their PM's to do everything for free and don't want to spend any money in maintaining and protecting their properties and keeping their tenants happy.

Sounds shady Jim, if it were me I would not do this as my first deal.