If your property management company is good and has built an internal maintenance team which has set rates and had strong relationship relationships with licensed contractor which should keep costs in control, you should never need to shop contractors on your own I wouldn't think.So in short, our policy is give us your preferred contractors upfront if you have them, but then we work all tickets to resolution including dispatch, and payment of invoices.This is of course for operational expenses.  

It sounds like you may be a better fit for a smaller operation that still offers guided tours.

You could form an LLC and have the operating agreement that allows your boss to require you to purchase his membership interest (or allow you to purchase his) in a given time frame.

Common tasks include guiding (for example, blind, severe physical disability), alerting (severe diabetes, seizures), retrieving/operating (pushing buttons, switches, etc).

@Jay Hinrichs exactly the risk is even more than traditional development and the profit is actually less with more operational headaches.

Opening a new fund or operating company and not reporting on the old fund’s results3.

The issue with section 179 expense is that you normally have to operate at positive income.Under most circumstances, bonus depreciation is better since you can take bonus depreciation even if you operate at negative income. 

Is it Leasing, Property Management, Vendor Management, Operations, Finance, Accounting... 

Im a medium sized operator - 46 units- and my typical deal has an ARV from 200 to 230 when its finished.

Most lenders will vary how aggressive they will get based on the experience of the operator (you), but I don't know any that will lender to someone who's never done a spec build like you're contemplating.