SEO For Website

My website was recently designed. I want to market my business to people in the Southwest Florida region who are looking for any kind of home repairs. Our company specializes in repairing real estate owned houses that are owned by banks. These are foreclosed homes. Mainly bankers and real estate agents will search the web for these companies that do what is called REO (Real Estate Owned) repair. It is also called ORE and OREO type houses. I would like to be at THE TOP or THE FIRST PAGE of organic and local searches on Google. I know this takes time for webcrawlers to find your site but I would like to see it up there in at least 1 to 2 months. Other search engines matter as well. I would like you to find the keywords that get the most hits for my the services that my company does. I have some idea of the important META tags, but am up for your recommendations and expertise to get my site the most hits and exposure on search engines. The most crucial thing that I think I need that I don't have is LINKS. I would like you to change this. The site already has an xml sitemap. You can see the website for more detail and to see the services that we provide.