Your goal is to make a financial return commensurate with the risks associated.  

All in all it ended up taking just over 2 months to get the plans approved because everything had to be done by email.

If you buy in a city with limited appreciation, every investment dollar must come from your savings, which is beyond the reach of most investors.Income continuity.

You can't call up Apple's CEO and suggest improvements, but you can definitely upgrade your rental property's kitchen to command higher rent.

The renewal included a deductible increase from 10% to 15% of replacement cost.

Many of the people that come are members of Lifestyles Unlimited so they sometimes talk about upcoming events for members only, but the meeting is open to everyone and they share some excellent information. 

I'm looking more for an overarching portfolio spreadsheet to track asset performance over the lifetime of holding the asset.If you have the property manager paying the mortgages, taxes, insurances, doing all the accounting, etc why not just ask them to generate whatever report you want?

If I come across anything relevant I’ll get back to you though. 

I also suspect the vast majority of lenders will take exception to your mom being the 1st position lien (look up strategic default).

It is just the law.