Basically plan for the divorce prior to the wedding.  

Once you get a piece of property under contract, then you're outsourcing all of the entitlement work to experts and basically managing that part.  

The value for us was basically paying 3k/month for a project manager, which we built into our reno costs and fit our model.  

Instead of focusing on the basic fundamentals: buying good properties, managing expenses, maintaining the asset, and operating responsibly, people are drawn into strategies and systems that make the process seem far more complex than it needs to be.

Most cost seg firms will give you a free estimate if you share basic property details - no commitment needed.For residential STR properties in the $500k-$1M range, check out room42.io - they're built for this exact use case and the cost is low enough that you can run studies on multiple properties to dial in your estimates without breaking the bank.

Basically, you are convincing your inner doubter that you can do it. 

I have basically operated your model for the past 10 years with a number of partners.

Yes we were successful winning bidding wars 3 months ago using the family postcard technique;) Basically, we added a cute picture of our family along with our offers (which were based on conventional financing) and our “humanity” made us win over the cash offers.

Basically it was a JV type format where they do a fix and flip and find an investor to give them the money for the property = I think they owner financed it as the exit as well (cannot remember). 

This is basically a "subject to" type of transaction.