Think contractors, landlords, etc. possibly even finding some form of part time job with a contractor or property management company is also a good way to get hands on learning and property management can pay fairly well once you get systems down

Lets link and we can scale your business stateside as well 

After trying for three months with Facebook Ads, Flyers in the Hispanic areas of town, and posting on every Facebook group possible we ran the numbers as an Airbnb and discovered that it would work really well.

That is incredible @Bob Stevens is your buddy paying cash from his tremendous portfolio?

I'm simply planning to buy the homes in working class, relatively safe areas, fix them up well and furnish them and rent the rooms individually to make minimum 1.5-1.7 times higher than normal rents by including their utilities.

I am looking at putting one in as well and trying to go the most economical way.

It rents well and the regulations are friendly. the only problem is, most of the townhomes have CC&Rs which prohibit short term rentals. 

We just put in a new well, water pump, and electric panel.

Avoid lipstick on the pig.Renovations like nice kitchens and bathrooms are great for rental properties, but it is not everything.A property that has been cosmetically renovated, but has no capital improvements is worse than one that has been very well-maintained, but might have older cosmetics.If I walk into a property and I see that the kitchens and bathrooms have been redone, but all the walls are plaster there's no grounding in the electrical and the plumbing has never been updated that I consider it a full gut.It's a shame to pay a premium because of a nice kitchen and bathroom only to find out that you have to rip it all apart.It is usually less expensive to do cosmetic rehab for rentals than capital improvements. 

We guided the mother-son team through making an offer on a short sale, a process that took almost a year but was well worth it.