He really brought a lot of value in just one and half hour call.

In my experience, financial advisors that work for a Registered Investment Advisor charge about half of that. 

Yep for one especially in the early stages a hard credit pull would not be useful, just have them do soft checks for the time being and opt out of credit solicitation: www.optoutprescreen.com I could be biased... that said typically working with one lender than can help regardless of where you're looking and having a relationship with that will provide the easiest and most cost effective route long term. 

Without that baseline plan, we might’ve ended up playing Whac-A-Mole with random listings and half-baked projections.I’m not pitching perfection here.

I've always been a half-assed Airbnb specialist realtor.

Your PM will be the most important player in the game but not until the second quarter or second half.

Spend more than half of your total working hours in an RE business in which you materially participate.2.

Quote from @Marc Shin: What's the best / easiest way to find comps on a property?   

The easiest way to find your reviews is through the VRBO app.

@Salome Ditmars Finding a good group that has all of the characteristics you mentioned above is probably the fastest and easiest way.