Looks like your question hasn't been answered.I am locking up about 8 deals a month by cold calling & direct mail - I hired 4 cold callers to generate me hot deals and I take the direct mail calls to my cell phone personally since that marketing channel costs more money. 

Get to know and hire a good real estate attorney who specialized in RE investments.

Are you looking to hire a professional management company? 

I am going to hire a licensed a surveyor to get the property lines surveyed and corners staked.

You should hire an attorney to ensure it's done properly.

One thing to note is that I don't want to remodel myself or hire anyone to do the work by getting a HELOC etc.  

She explained to me that while she understood that I didn't want to continue my education, basically I needed to look at what the people who were hiring wanted and what was needed in order to get into the position that I wanted to get in.

I wanna hire a real estate lawyer to help me, but I’m not sure where should I hire one?

What kind of person are looking to hire?

One of the hardest things with flipping it seems is having a good contractor to work with but recently we've been working with a young talented contractor who had done some nice work on one of our properties and he has expressed interest in getting into flipping.