Heather Rapp, IMO, when starting out you should not be building your "team" with people you have to train.

I don't know about your state but don't take home inspectors reports as the gospel.As a buyer learn as much as you can and challenge them to defend their findings.In GA anyone can be a home inspector.So qualifications,number of inspections,previous industry history,ongoing training etc. is critical.So your home inspector who went up in the attic didn't see the cut outs for the vents showing on the roof??

What matters is they haven't been trained properly.

There is a Kitsap County group that is very active and open to training you as well as providing funds to help you get started.

You have a great starting point- 2 great buddies, and military training!

There was a one day training, plus his materials cost extra.

Or is this to train newbies to eventually have worker bees since most won't survive?

I agree with the above, except I would make one alteration:"It is easier to sell the dream (easy money based on a simple system requiring little money down except for the big chunk of money for the training and little risk) than to sell the truth that making money in real estate usually requires knowledge, time, money, effort, personal sacrifice and risk."

The software vendor for our MLS system is Rapattoni , and I haven’t even been to the training class, just test driving at this point.My initial focus was to identify good flipping neighborhoods by looking for aggregations of MLS “consumer” sales/listings/pendings (not lender or short sales) in the past 9 mths throughout my broad target areas, in the exit price range I wanted to focus on initially (100-150K).

I say "pretty strict" because I have made exceptions...once for a small very well trained dog and again for a long term, excellent, clean tenant to get a cat.