I have an excellent agent partner who is an MTR manager there with 24 units.

If you think that the forums and the books have the same information and the same quality, do you read books at all?

Could be a business decision based on keeping long-term high quality tenants rather than risk the costs on turnover. 

Find a quality agent in Texas, then ask them if they offer a referral fee.

As you know, I was so impressed by the quality of the offering that I decided to join as well and have been on a couple of group calls.I'm the Director of Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions for Southcorp Group in Columbus, Georgia.

Then definitely get a quality PM and rent it out for a bit.

No syndication experience but there are about a dozen quality RV/Mobile home parks on market in Oregon, several with owner carry options that can be passiv-ish with management in place.

I am planning to build a portfolio dashboard for my properties in Excel, and I have a pretty good idea of what I want to see about them individually and combined. 

To address this I took detailed pictures from beginning to end of my most recent flip, documenting that we did a thorough job using quality materials.   

Do it very intentionally, not just for the sake of scaling up, but to get better quality or easier to manage properties that will replace lower quality or harder properties.