@Cody Evans Additional question for you.

I know someone personally who's significant other was an architect and it still took a year to get an addition completed on her   house (north miami). 

Not sure you fully understand what I am saying.....paying down debt is buying cash flow, To buy $500 in additional cash flow by removing a mortgage interest payment is in my world costing $1000 due to the opportunity value of my cash.

Scenario A: Leave family room as is (sitting on piers on top a mound of concrete, area underneath is unusable), finish existing basement and add a bathroom ($30-40K) - rent the basement out for maybe $1300. (300sf) Scenario B: Demo family room, rebuild a two-story 1000sf addition (200K?

I would see if I can rent a few rooms in the house to get additional income.

In addition to what the others have said, the local RHA meetings are a good resource for making connections.

Be sure to visit Meetups.com to see them in addition AZREIA is a must!

In addition to keyword alerts, you might try working through the Ultimate Beginners Guide if you already haven't done it.

Seeing no point in paying me a fee or ability to collect the difference to be an additional resource to get it sold.

Many of the investors that I work with directly use online lead gen as their primary source of quality leads, that things like direct mail or cold calling as additional sources.