If the highest and best use of your time is achieved by working a W2 job, another money generating activity, or in leisure...then by all means hire help in the form of a PM to take the management task off of your plateOn the other hand, if retaining the 8-12% to be paid for help is more important than other activities...then you probably want to figure out how to manage it yourself.There is no right or wrong answer.

I became visually impaired and unable to care for myself due to a stroke and I had to learn how to use all my muscles again.

Should keep most car's from going over as well as provide a psychological feeling of security as well.I bought 6 of them to build a retaining wall.

I wouldn’t gift anyone else my capital, which is what you are doing when putting in 80% of the capitalization but only retaining 75%.

These are not the kind of people to have an attorney on retainer.

I’m debating on selling my rental property (4plex) and utilizing a 1031 exchange to funnel the proceeds into a larger property (10+ units) to scale my portfolio, and retain some of the proceeds from the sale for future use.

If it isn't  you usually  need to retain part of the original structure to have building rights usually to the original footprint.  

You retain whatever the previous homeowner had until the next tax year.

Filing as single, unmarried.I believe after 3 yrs (2/5 rule) i may loose my 250 tax exemption, but do i retain some type or amount of tax exemption at the amount the property is worth at the time of the conversion to a rental, ie: Is my new tax base the value of the home at the time of conversion?

This raises some ethical questions and in reality doesn't really resolve the "management and maintenance" component because since it's likely the "seller" is going to retain the property, do they really want to turn over responsibility to the tenant to take care of the asset?