Use the BP search function and search on "house hack".  

Is the approach that he/she would function as the buyer's agent?  

If anybody can tell me how to turn that function off I'd really appreciate it and I would look like much less of an idiot on my posts

Quick learner and learn best when it's visual.

And FLIP is a good book if you are a visual learner...lots of details you can relate to your question. 

You will go weeks without a functional kitchen, sometimes no floors, heck, sometimes no walls.

Your best deal on this end would be to get a manager that will allow you to do some of the management functions and cover expenses such as advertising, to reduce their fee.

I'm a visual learner with a lot of project management background and know that sometimes I get too excited about building the spreadsheet so wanted to see what yours was like for inspiration so I'm sure not to go too deep.

(Mention function is not working on my cell?!)

I am also a huge fan of forums with good "search" functions to help satisfy all of my curiosity.