I'm concerned that if I place an ad to find people who will work on an hourly basis (in the area of the property) that I might have a hard time finding people who can reliably respond to emergencies during off hours, but I can't afford to have someone working full time or with standard on-call rotations. 

I have good standards.

If you want to blame yourself for not training hard enough or being born tough enough to handle the mugger or a dipSh** syndicator be my guest but I am not going to hold me, you or anyone else to that standard.  

With rehabs you can get to significantly lower purchase prices and typically the lender will just be looking for  a100k+ ARV so that you can refinance out of the loan once rehab is completed (100k as-is value is pretty standard for DSCR loans).With rehabs experience is the biggest factor to LTV and rate so partnering up with someone for the first one or first 3 will get you significantly better terms (working in the same area can also provide benefits in terms of LTV).

We sign a completely new lease with the new tenant after we make sure that they meet our rental standards.

I doubt there were any projects, other than your standard issue Ponzi scheme.

Section 8 tenants can be great, but the properties do have to meet specific housing standards, so factor in potential renovation costs to ensure compliance.

Standard Charter Bank is getting into storage and transactions, PayPal is offering crypto purchases and are seeing higher than expected demand and are rushing to rollout the global offering.

He is not a licensed financial professional, which is convenient because he does not have to adhere to strict regulatory standards such as disclosing conflicts of interest and how he gets compensated as noted.  

As a few others have mentioned I think the 15% fee for MTR is the typical industry standard but it can depend on the area