Browse the forum, see who and how answers questions, find people you want to work with and send them a PM. 

We can stream off 3 TV's and browse the internet on the 12mb.So if you can get 100mb or so for significantly less, then I would do that.Now it will be different if you offer a working vacation options, then more would be better.

There you will see references written by members that you can actually interface with. 

In my personal research, Houzeo seems to be a solid Flat Fee MLS Service, a good interface and online forms, no % of sale $ with Bronze plan, a site buyers may have heard of, and good reviews on Trustpilot. 

There's keyboard warriors everywhere on social media and when I browse other sections of this forum I don't see that, so I can see the "mentor thing" is probably something that burnt a lot of people.Say what you want about mentors.

Browsed and looked at many properties before purchasing one.

Browse the forum, find a couple of experts who you want to work with and send a PM to them.I would also wait a couple of days, since today is the IRS deadline of 4/15, and we're underwater. 

But if you browse the forums, you will actually see many, many posts from California investors that bought a random property at a "low" price point... and then totally failed to meet their expectations.and to reiterate: if you buy something turnkey, you will not cashflow for several years. 

In browsing their pro formas on their inventory section, it doesn't look like CapEx reserves are accounted for.

I highly recommend Appfolio just simply because the tenant interface portion of the software is super easy to use and it has a built-in messaging system that makes communication so much easier!