Overall, your next actional step should be attending local REI meet-ups.

I do have some very limited experience with commercial, but I've found it to be risky when retail vacancies come up, at least in the Bay Area.

These and 1000 other questions or concerns or issues that to me are potentially of vital importance to your purchase, your investment, your resale and exit strategy for the future.Real Estate is a team sport. 

Honestly once the doc was signed, most of deal was on me to deliver. 

@Corby Goade I agree: paying a month for a professional pm to find someone to me is worth not only the time and effort but the cost.

I do condo plans as part of my W2, and these SF calculations can vary based on the coord with the attorney and owner as far as how the association is originally set up in its budgeting for dues.

To me it seems like it could be taught in under a day?

Hi Dean, how much did you really leave up to your property managers after purchasing a home when looking to scale? 

@Joshua Ryan Lindsay If it was me, I'd rent it.

The main thing being: giving up a property that appears to have appreciated pretty well is just a touch pill to swallow and I've regretted a few moves I've made when put in a similar situation to yours, and I had less equity in mine.It sounds like you're moving to Raleigh in the near future and want to buy a multifamily to househack.