I spend about 6 hours a week on my LTRs, I have 25 units and am buying more.

So if you don’t want to spend 12 months completing one deal for a $2,000 gross profit and investing 1500 hours to do it, you’ll need about $50k to carry you until deals start closing.  

Not interested in 1031 as I want to use this money to pay off debt and spend more time with family.

Would you give her a chance or would you repost the property, spend more time interviewing potential candidates, and possibly miss a month rent.

Many operators I know have full teams built out and spend all of their time on this.

actually they are handed out like candy and keep adding laws with felony as consequences. btw felony is given to anyone who judge says must spend at least 365 days in jail or 1 day in prison. 

In fact, even if the training course is related to property management, claiming that you needed to spend $30k on education while collecting merely $15k in rent per year is a flimsy position. 4.

Also depends how much time I need to spend on it, if its a 1 month job vs. 4 month job.

These will help you understand how aggressively you can push for rent increases.For tenants you want to keep, I'd push the rents to an amount that both parties are comfortable with, so they stay in-place and you don't have to spend on turnover and renovations.

If you're investing remotely, especially for buy/hold, I highly recommend for the investor to spend some time in the cities that they are interested in