After the renovation is complete and you're renting the unit, not having to worry about tracking physical keys is a super convenient perk for residents/guests, and also has the added benefit of minimizing the amount of lockouts and other headaches you'll potentially have to deal with later on down the road. 

You want low maintenance-so go with a house that needs minimal work to rent it long term. 

When something goes wrong, you can find the best contractor for the job, who can make the repairs right away, and now your tenants are happy, and you have minimized the time you would have spent speaking to your tenants about the delay or fighting a warranty company.

The additional garage fee was minimal ($100.00 extra per month).

With the delayed settlement  agreement, would give you time to clean the house up a little and market the house using the short date sale method. 

I always tell them: I teach you to be the founder and person in charge who pays those you hire to provide what they promised at high quality with minimal effort.You can be that founder anywhere in the world that has an internet connection and when Starlink is fully build out, literally anywhere in the world.Happy to tell you in a chat how I do that

That is thrown around because a lot of self-employed are showing minimal income on their tax returns because they deduct everything.If that is you, then yes you should go the HELOC or DSCR route.

I think self management would be very doable for you and your spouse provided you either buy decent units or get them renovated quickly minimizing the need for time consuming repairs.

I did a quick back of the envelope calc on the beam and with only the weight of the beam itself and an additional 20 pounds per foot (very minimal load), it will deflect over 1". 4.

Builder keeps on blaming on suppliers etc, every time there is a new story and hard to updates on delays.