@Daniel Porter - this may not help with learning the costing side, but if you want to develop some handy man skills, try volunteering with the local Habitat for Humanity chapter. 

Thank youJabriel Porter 

Joey here, while I am still in the education process for real estate investing.

Quote from @Joey Chrisman: Any property on mls in Tempe is 400k and above... even if you get a place for 300k and rent it out for $2100 a month it seems like a bad deal for cash flow.  

Quote from @Joey Consos: @Robert E Bogino any additional advice on what to look for in a manufactured home?

@Porter Linton Anderson.

Thank you Joey!

Porter said, if the LLCs are all disregarded to the same entity then it is no problem at all. 

I know with Your Porter you can choose: native, SMA or email.

There's a great thread with many STR manager's real world feedback on many of the channel managers out there up here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/...In that thread I also posted the comparison matrix I used to land on Porter based on the criteria I had outlined below.