I want freedom, I want to work "for myself", I want to be successful for myself and future generations. 

TurboTax generates my depreciation schedules, and tracks depreciation taken.  

How do you generate leads for your direct marketing?

The quicken app is easy to use to do everything I awaits above from your smart phone if you choose and I was able to download it on my business partners phone (she is of the "non computer generation") and she is able to see how much is in our business account as well as how much income has been brought in for the month vs how much we've spent in one easy snapshot.

If anyone has tips for lead generation on good homes in that area, or you also live there yourself, give a shout out!

You should have a typical septic system inspected at least every 3 years by a professional and your tank pumped as recommended by the inspector, generally every 3 to 5 years.Four major factors influence the frequency of pumping: the number of people in your household, the amount of wastewater generated (based on the number of people in the household and the amount of water used), the volume of solids in the wastewater (for example, using a garbage disposal increases the amount of solids), and septic tank size.

Because as you mentioned, the cost of construction here being what it is, a bare shell could easily take 100K to complete.Do these investors just have good marketing that generates those kind of deals?

I have attached a couple of links that I think you might enjoy:The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Investinghttp://www.biggerpockets.com/real-estate-investingThe Definitive Guide to Real Estate Wholesalinghttp://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2010/06/10...Podcasts you might like that are related to wholesaling:http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/07/31...http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/07/03/bp-podcast-077-negotiating-way-1000-wholetail-deals-michael-quarles/http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/05/22/bp-podcast-071-lead-generation-phillip-vincent/http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/04/24/bp-podcast-067-tim-gordon-wholesaling/Most of all, BP is information-rich!

Did you remove the playground equipment?

He did have a job, but i cant remember where, and he didn't have any valuable assets other than some old video games and some band equipment.