On a $300,000 house that's $3,000 to fix up the house for sale by painting, front landscaping, staging - this cost more than $3,000 in my state of Massachusetts!

I listened to a bunch of audiobooks , podcast, first hand stories, etc pretty much got a good sense of the strategy I want to take Im just caught up just in the information overload stage I just want to know what to do once I have the 30k at hand and ready to go. 

I too am in the early stages of building my Wholesaling pipeline.

I'm in Cali so as an out of state investor I would normally be leaving it to my agent to arrange inspections, find me a PM, etc.

However he is OK with a 30 day close which gives me time to arrange financing.Can I just pay him his assignment fee in exchange for the purchase contract? 

Are you just handling it during this initial stage and then going to turn it over to them?

At this stage in the cycle, I'd stick with high occupancy properties.

But it wouldn't hurt the sale price or refinance appraisal later.Also should I arrange home inspection and contractors come estimate on the same day since I got access to the property?

I found a hard money lender that will finance 100% of purchase price and rehab cost up to 70% of ARV. the catch is that they wont pay for rehab until each stage is complete, so I'll have to pay contractors as they go, and then get paid back by the HML. and of course the fees are pretty outrageous. 

If not how would you negotiate on a house that is in some stage of foreclosure?