So many wonderful answers about the hard work that agents really do (most of them, hopefully the ones you're working with) to help with the transaction.

Or offering personalized consulting, deal analysis, or portfolio review for an additional fee (as others are doing today).Your comment makes me wonder if we have a "chicken and egg" problem in the note-investing market.

John I also wonder same thing I’ve yet to discover what a PM actually does.

For anyone who wondered here a year later, if you also use Innago, you can avoid manually entering expenses by scanning the receipts and the item description and total $ amount will load automatically, as long as everything on the receipt is expenses for the unit.

I'm thinking about where to invest that money into, and was wondering if the following is possible?

If you can get both then wonderful, but generally most investors pick one or the other as it suits their individual goals.  

(S)he should have access to a number of insurers and policy types.I checked with Proper and Steadily and both do not allow more than one booking in a house at the same time.I'm wondering if there are any other insurances that do allow it?

In the past I have used a property manager but thinking of doing this myself.I was wondering if any other small landlords do anything to hide their real name and/or real address/phone number from tenants during the screening and leasing process.  

I'm just wondering how to handle the capital gain tax between me and my partner.

Just wondering if this is all normal?