There are so many pieces of the maintenance puzzle that can affect its efficiency.If you're not opposed to outsourcing, companies like mine offer lower cost alternatives to hiring a full-time employee and allow the cost of managing the maintenance to scale equivalently to your growth.

Save your money for the investment itself, or setting up your LLCs or a marketing piece. 

I have bought 2 short sales so far and converted them to rentals after 1 yr of living in them, and the bank makes you sign a piece of paper stating that you are not related to the seller.. 

IE consult with investors and do their due diligence on the syndicator the project etc.charge a nominal fee but give the investor some piece of mind that a third party went through the offering docs.. did some due diligence on the market and such.. ???

As I said previously I plan on sending all these pieces of mail by the 15th. 

I track: mail pieces sent, cost per mail piece, cost per total lead, cost per seller lead, response rate/seller response rate, revenue/profit.

Maybe offer to help on the design side for a small piece of the equity?  

My thoughts are brand new should give a little piece of mind on any Cap Ex.

Too many moving pieces to give you advice on here.

Last I checked even our recliner breaks into 2 pieces.