My wife and I only have <5 properties we are self managing.

And eventually or even now, go to Real Estate Events all around Chicago, most of them are free and you can find the events on Meetup.com or Eventbrite.com (my company also hosts a lot of events every month that are free @A&N Mortgage which you can find on Meetup.com).Good Luck!

I also find that depending on the tenant, my one Airbnb property has less wear and tear because it's constantly cleaned and maintained versus my other rentals where the families living there settle in and accumulate stuff - which makes it hard to deep clean regularly (to my liking) as well as just the constant daily wear and tear from kids etc. 

Quote from @Sebastian Bennett: I've been actively using BiggerPockets for over a while, have been educating myself and attending a lot of networking events.

I have a friend who owns 10 or so units near here so we are thinking of spliting some of the cost and combining all the units together.

There are a lot of in-person real estate investor meetups in Northern New Jersey and other parts that you can find in the Events and Meetups section of these forums.

This is why Wears Valley is a popular request (I don't own there).

PassivePockets is a great place to do this as well as live events such as BPCON every October.Just as important as networking is education. 

We are attempting to get an eviction date, but could not pass a lead paint inspection because the weather is so cold in Cleveland that the paint will not dry.

This is an ongoing tricky area for DSCR Loan refinances that is far from solved (although we are working on it!).