@Keith HebertYou ‘ve gotten alot of good advice on here, my advice is pay top dollar for high value/low frequency tasks and look at outsourcing your low value high frequency tasks.Pay a CPA to do your taxes and review your books on a quarterly or annual basis-get a bookeeper (there is alot of good 3rd party bookeeping services that work remote) have them do all the data entry/recs and set up checks so all you have to do is print and sign them.

@Samuel Toby If you only have 2 hours daily then, I would hire a VA to take care of time-consuming task like cold calling. 

I've been wanting to start investing in flips or rentals for a long time but we were stuck underwater in a very unique property on the outskirts of Boise.

Home could easily rent for $3,000+.It is the next-to-last house on a quiet street, our lot is next to the home of the person who sold the development back in the 70s  and he kept 20 acres to himself -- so our home's backyard and to the side is 20 acres of woods and trails that won't be developedIn-ground swimming pool with a new pump and pool linerNew water heater, washer and dryer, and full-home water filtration system (all put in just before we moved in)Renovated kitchenExtremely unique "sunroom" that the first owner had custom-built with huge nearly floor-to-ceiling windows.

My first thought was that I should approach property management companies to simply volunteer my time to do whatever tasks they may need done, and that via osmosis I will learn a lot.

The way to buy hold, and operate these types of real estate is what's unique. 

We are reasonably handy people if a house needs repairs we are willing to take on a task and put in sweat equity.

FYI, the reason I ask is that it just so happens, I'm in just this unique situation explained above and am curious where other's would pick.  

I don't have consumer debt of any kind and enjoy doing tasks myself, saving $90k per year. 

It is a very unique situation, indeed.