Is it common to get a partner if you plan to house hack?

If you do, I'd suggest getting a housecleaner in once every 1 to 2 weeks to clean common areas and bathrooms. 

Inflating prices on seller finance sales is all too common.

However, as a general rule, if you have two sources of income like that and you're using Schedule C to report your property management business, your income will be subject to self-employment tax in addition to income tax.

In my experience the basics for a functional RE based CRM are:Custom Fields for Data Objects (Leads, Prospects, Applications, Buildings, Units, etc...)A Screening Engine (background/credit checks, employment verification, etc)Online Rental Application (this should automatically run the application through screening)Ability to mass email/sms leads and tenants to provide informationSurveys/Inspection formsI've been building real estate CRM tools for years.

Almost never the MLS.This sounds like a common story of out-of-state investors buying up class C with local third party management. 

We used to have in-house inspectors but it was hard to scale and with our heavies season being that of summer months, at 1000+ units we weren't able to hire enough inspectors for the last day of month move outs and first day of month move ins and then still keep them fully-employed in our slower season in fall/winter.

Quote from @Deborah Lee: Software is a common question on BiggerPockets.

Its closer to Belleview, where Lockheed Martin is which is one of the biggest employers in the Ocala area.

We applied for a traditional cash out/refinance on the investment property but were denied because she's only been employed at one job for 1 year and 2 months (they wanted 2 years).