Sounds like you have a solid marketing budget, and a great plan to continue marketing as you make deals.

You have to trust the contractor will have your best interests in mind and not gouge you on the pricing  or respond to tenant related or nonsensical issues (ie, I have a broken slat on my miniblind and need it to be replaced). 

That sounds like a great way to get started @Natasha Richardson!

Be sure to get them ALL out or you could be found negligent by a future tenant and have to pay to replace EVERYTHING of theres.

Section 8 sounded very straight forward get a check from the govt lol but obv things I didn’t think about.

This concept sounds very interesting.

Similarly, one of the houses needed an electrical panel replaced (we found out with the inspection) and once we said we wanted the cost covered by the sellers, he sent his electrician in to get a quote, and wrote it in the contract.

The bank wants to start at $350,000 (which sounds low enough to get me excited).

It sounds like you're already well on your way to acheive your goal.

I'm aware of how uninformed I sound but I'm ready to sit down, read however many hours of books need to be read, study any bit of contract law that needs to be understood, and essentially do whatever it takes to succeed.