My partner and I have a couple units we manage as well in Washington DC.

A great way to get started if you currently have a W2 job is to buy a house hack like a duplex or a fourplex where you can move into one of the units and continue to rent/manage the other units.

Hi Karen, Have you tried reaching out to any other local investors or property management companies? 

The model opens a pool of possibilities for owners who are prepared to hold and manage the property long-term.

we just managed to get ong to run all new lines and separate meters for our whole apartment complex at no cost to us. 

@Alba Cheung,your property manager should have already handled this and you should not be involved.

But yes, if I were you I would most likely start off with house hacking, self managing everything so that you'll educate yourself very quickly. 

@Chris Seveney We don't plan to make money by managing the fund.

Additionally, they offer some AWESOME services such as: SMS MANAGEMENT(they will text your leads and communicate with them for you, then send you the details of their discussion for you to close the deal with the seller), COLD CALLING(If you're not good on the phone, they will cold call your leads and get the info you need, then you just call them and close the deal), and they offer more services as well.

I'm not counting those since I don't manage them, but I typically avoid cities and states with laws antagonistic to landlords.