However, as the unit count goes up and other obligations in life are running my time down to zero, I am leaning toward getting more help with the process. 

Yes the property management looking for 10% on monthly rent (is that the range you’ve seen)given i don’t expect too many issues I am leaning towards self managing once I have a tenant in place for the short term (6months).

This is the direction I was leaning on what to do.

I'm leaning towards ductless since it's cheaper.

One year ago, I dedicated myself to lifelong health and wealth which resulted in successfully saving 25% of my income, my first stint in investing, a body transformation, and led me to recently read Rich Dad, Poor Dad. 

Now I'm leaning more towards trying to find one multi-family at at least 800k value, and that way all of the conditions of my exchange would be met with one deal.

I am leaning towards building larger cash reserves and getting a few more properties under my belt and then working on the debt buy down with more cash flow.

I have been leaning towards paying off the student debt, primarily for tax purposes. 

That was kind of the way I was leaning any way, but I wanted to make sure there wasn't some obvious solution that I was over-complicating.

I am leaning towards doing the 30 year in order to increase the cashflow.