I scoured craigslist, the web and facebook for people to do very specific tasks.

We have a management LLC (owned by my wife) & I have an LLC for my web design, authoring and consulting business.

I've done one LLC in Illinois and it was easy: $75 to the state, one web form, draft up some routine procedural docs etc. 

If you have any specific go / no-go criteria, you can evaluate it on the web most likely. 

Yes, you are right about the child labor laws imagine these days if people saw a 9 year old swinging a box cutter and carrying bundles of magazines almost as heavy as he was!

Now would you say it's possible to build a network via the web?

I signed up for something on Ron LeGrand's web-site (the free access portion).

I see the discussion, but it's talking about the amount "Jim" can take for the next loan, not anything about the time period between when one loan is paid off and the time until he can request a new loan.Asking more out of curiosity, I would be surprised if John Hancock had something incorrect posted on our retirement plan web page. 

And there are real estate text books, many used in business schools, as well as building trade books, magazines, youtube videos.

Physically see the property, don't rely on web pictures, sometimes they are years old and don't show the current state or the entire property.