I’m in the process of obtaining my real estate license and looking forward to connect and keep learning! 

And I near to never hear it spoken of in open public forums like this yet, inside the world of Institutional/Professional REI it is the single most centric item we discuss, analyze, assess, quantify, weigh and measure. 

If at any point you hit a road block and feel it is to much to handle I would advise hiring a public claims adjuster to get your claim maximized and completed faster.

Your goals are admirable and obtainable with effort and determination, you know, similar effort & determination you took to get educated to be a nurse and get your job.

Permits are very difficult to obtain (we build homes in Chicago, so that may be a non-issue for us considering what we have to deal with here LOL :)4.

I'm looking to partner (I don't care to make any money, I just want to learn) and see how investors and syndicators, raise capitol, obtain financing, and work with contractors to increase NOI.

I suggest you looking into Fund & Grow to obtain business line of credit if you have a good credit profile to be a cash buyer.

as simple as it sounds I live in a market where people are paying way over asking price yes Dallas and the city at that, I spent months looking and one days I went to my boss and he mentioned someone he knew selling a home at that i could obtain a better price than if I were just buying from any random person in this market.

Maybe college kids don't do that anymore, but I figured it was even more common with all the legal ways to obtain it now.

I wish it wasn't.What's probably going to happen now is that you'll carry around this experience and the grudge it engenders for the rest of your life, and after you buy a house, the next time a politician stands up and starts talking about tenant rights and rent control and rent moratoriums, you'll nod along, and bad things will happen to landlords, and we'll all scream bloody murder here and in other forums on how unfair, unfair, unfair it is that people hate landlords so much.How much we contributed as a group to bringing the public outrage on ourselves through unethical, grasping business practices like this, well, that won't be as enthusiastically discussed.