Don't lay logic on your wife, it's deadly boring and if she's nervous about investment, then work instead on the results and feelings.

I possess the necessary skills to do much of the renovation myself, and with dual incomes from myself and my (long-term) girlfriend, I think investing in a fixer-upper, multi-family home is a logical step for us. 

That’s 30 years.Talking concepts is very important.Talking with emotion and not logic is very important.There’s a danger in educating the seller too much and teaching techniques on how to solve the problem is never a good idea.I never do that.I don’t educate sellers.

This seems logical if you look at a few years, but after >= 10 years, it seems wrong to ignore the effect of appreciation.Some areas exhibit more growth then others, so it seems there should be a more complete metric.A real-estate investment professional has showed me (among other things) the metric which was named "Cash on cash with equity build-up".

Why good idea - because you can afford it...Do you see how asinine this logic is, DL?

I use Yelp for everything else, seems like a logical way to find a PM.  

You are in a vulnerable position at the moment and I do not think it is wise to make decisions based on emotion versus logic.

Based on your logic, you don't need to pay the sellers at all.

By that logic an owner who doesn't have a mortgage shouldn't be charging rent?

., you can study others' systems and apply their logic (but not their copywriting) to your site(s) and repurpose the workflow.