@Carolyn Mazzola unless I'm missing something, appears you are confusing Property Management Software (PMS) with a Property Management Company (PMC).PMCs employ PMS to better manage properties & tenants.If you invest OOS, who will be your boots on the ground?

Choose a market where you can afford a property in a B- or higher class neighborhood, AND where the market itself is growing in population size.

But your Team handed you that lead and need's there 50% split to keep the staff employed and developing lead's to hand you.

So, unless you are an SEO manager, I think that's a tough road to go down. 1:1 link exchanges go against Google's guidelines and best practices so I wouldn't advocate for that. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policiesMost one-size-fits-all all SEO companies are going to want to spend a lot of your management fee doing work that real estate investor-focused SEO companies don't need to do. 

Depending on the size of the loan you can easily shave off 10-20 years from the balance while still cash flowing more with a new property.

But without the full size wet stamped set in front of them most GCs will add a clause so they can change the price if needed. 

In 1803, Thomas Jefferson negotiated a deal with Napoleon Bonaparte that effectively doubled the size of this young nation.One might even say President Jefferson was the original distressed real estate investor.

Once I plan to offer the unit, I offer it contingent on successful background check: In addition to the basic applicant approved transunion smart move through buildium which I pay for, when smart move stopped providing criminal background data, I  added a $49 tenant paid service through rentprep for nationwide criminal and eviction, bank account deposit verification, and employment verification.

It took 5 trips from differenr contractors to fix the toilet rhat never stopped running turns out they had the wrong size flapper. 

Cause I tell every one of my clients, House Hacking isn't a one size fits all strategy.