The "personal gain" for your Realtor in introducing you to a preferred lending partner is likely to be limited to transaction comfort and accessibility  as well as referrals to other buyers/sellers. 

This would also limit the paper work to the business as a group and avoid going through each of the properties one by one.  

With property being so costly in the metro area, how is it even possible to acquire the first deal that has a positive cash flow with limited start up funds. 

He PCS but kept the house as a rental. 10 years later, he got stationed back at his first duty location because the number of bases that supported his AFSC/MOS were limited, meaning it was basically an eventuality that he'd make it back there. 

@Hardik Patel It's mostly a university town and we found a limited inventory of medium to large multi-family in Provo.

I started with Quicken Rental Property manager and soon realized this is a toy of limited value for me.

My main concern is that there are too many unknown variables for someone like me with very limited experience.  

Based on my limited rehab knowledge it could have used about 40K in repairs maybe less maybe more.Someone snatch it and flipped it.It looked amazing when they were done and sold it for 175K, kicking myself!

In my (limited) experience around PHX, when you go to sell it, if you as the owner did the work, any retail buyer is going to wet their pants, and ask for about 3 inspections, and a mountain of other documentation.  

With the limitations you have listed, you will be wasting your time trying it on your own knowing nothing about wholesaling other than what it is.