Should I hire an interior designer to stage the home and air bnb the property that I invest in and hand it off to a property manager to mange the air bnb ?  

It might be worthwhile to keep son and daughter off title and just have them mange them and run the business. 

I'm not going to pay some guru to generate a list of lenders and mange my bank account, I can do that, but the lending tool is interesting!

If you can mange to get even a little of his advisory time; it's worth it's weight in gold. 

Moreover, a multi-member LLC, when manged properly, often has more protection than single member LLCs. 

frankly you can do it.. but i highly doubt others without your knowledge of the area an abilty to mange yourself could do anywhere near as good as you.. congrats..those are fab numbers.  

If you mange the properties yourself or have someone else mange them this holds true. 

I found the cost to be to high to make sense especially since we would need a GC to mange it (we directly manage our local construction projects)

If it is far away, then definitely hire out to a mange company so the property maintenance is somebody else's problem.Just focus on income production.  

Fix and Flips get a lot of glam as quick way to make some money... but if you don't know how to mange the project or vet contractors or do the work yourself it can eat up all your capital quick.