I was more focused on building the portfolio, and it paid off, as I scaled to 50+ rental units in 5 years.I started my own PM when I moved to a different market because I wasn't confident I could find one as good as my previous manager.

If you do not have experience you may find there are a lot of hidden costs and risks you didn't anticipate. 

Your Lender My suggestion to find #2 & #4 would be to go to the top of this page and click on AGENTS & LENDERS. 

Beyond legal requirements, I’d love to hear about any practical advice for managing properties, finding good tenants, and avoiding common pitfalls.

Usually my agent is the one asking me to how to calculate ARV and find cost to fix the bathroom,etc.

If so, be sure to find the appropriate forum category and ask away.

Just wondering how many folks would really use this that are like I said not really educated on how title and escrow works and I find East coast folks to be highly reliant on closing attornies and have very little knowledge of title and escrow functions..

Focus on finding and underwriting deals. 

You need a solid proven system to find the deals.  

I think new builds don't really work from an ROI standpoint, but if you can find properties that have easy ADU conversions then the value might be there.I'm in MA and we just made ADUs legal by right, so I'm looking into the best ways to add value using them.