Help with Expense tracking and categorization: You can sync your bank accounts and credit cards to automatically categorize expenses related to your properties.

The profit-sharing agreement, signed directly with the lot owner, should outline the terms of splitting the net profits after the sale, including how expenses are calculated and timelines for payouts. 

It sucks because it's a great community and I DO want these tenants to be happy while I am out, but not at the expense of my sanity and my family.   

So, if interest rates are a buyer’s primary roadblock, then I recommend negotiating a rate buydown at a seller’s expense or looking at new construction, where builders are offering rate reductions and other substantial incentives.What if I’m a seller?

Instead they get a maintenance request and call an expensive plumber who is unsupervised and pretty much has a blank check to do whatever they want. 

Everything will be far more expensive. 

HI Pinny,You can always start off by house hacking meaning you live in one UNIT or ROOM and renting out the other vacant units/rooms to offset your monthly mortgage payment.There are several ways to run and make sure you are maximizing your rental income while keeping your living expense as low as possible.

My initial goal was to long term buy and hold but am thinking holding properties long enough so I do not get the capital gains tax and selling then 1031 exchanging to getting more properties or more expensive properties. 

It takes longer to lease in-person-and it's expensive.  

They seem expensive, but they can probably demand a higher rent rate that will cover their costs.