But the results are a clean smooth wall.

Essentially, my plan is to learn, network, tighten up my credit, raise capital, and pull the trigger within the next year (my original plan was within 9 months, but that would mean purchasing in December...I'm afraid it will be more difficult to flip a house in this area during the winter and I want to minimize holding cost as much as practical...thoughts on that are appreciated).That said, I'm a clean slate ready to absorb all the knowledge and wisdom from others in the BP community.

One of my great long-term real estate bets counts on them cleaning up the inner-city beaches. ;)

I just finished reading this article by Frank Defazio (http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2012/11/08...) and he states that after a period of time you can move out of the property and rent out of room you were living in to generate a higher cash flow.

Right now I dont wont them to call people but I know that some of them specialize in lead generation, but I don't want the  to go to CL and just get me names and numbers bc once I had them get some information about buyers and the leads was crap.I know that not every lead is gold but I would like for all of them not to be junk.I dont wont them to cut and paste from then newspaper or web sites.

They don't want to deal with cleaning, prepping or dealing with agents.

Fix to clean, safe and liveable, sell and move on. 

Yes pay taxes to generate more good debt.  

Otherwise I'd like to refinance my way into a clean property.  

Yes, stained concrete in lieu of flooring can look beautiful and can be done with amazing patterns, but have you ever tried to remove a wine stain (that the tenant failed to clean up) from stained concrete?