This method provides several advantages against a traditional manager as I can cater my service and fees to the individual needs of my owners. 

I will not know the downpayment % expectation or your individual peculiarity,  for when you're ready.

I told the PM numerous times verbally and in emails “It has a sprinkler system.

Wrote letter to random individual How did you finance this deal?

Even without a track record these individuals presumably know you as an upstanding and trustworthy guy and this means you only have to sell them on the merits of the real estate.

Can someone please advise me on the pro's and con's and keeping the lot as a single lot with all 14 duplexes on it or subdividing each lot to have 14 individual lots? 

My spouse and I prefer not having to split things up and retitle ownership under separate individual trusts.

If I purchase this cabin, I want to do a complete update which would require parting with most of the furniture, so I have a few questions:1.How do new owners remove large and numerous items from a cabin if you are remote?  

Is there a faster method then sending applications to individual tenants in response to their request to see the property?

There use depends on the type of trust setup - they can be used to bypass probate; eliminate ownership and control from a person subject to lawsuits; skip a generation on an inheritance and hence skip inheritance taxes, and numerous other uses.