Without that network, self-management would have been nearly impossible for me."

You can also download it directly in PDF format from my business page - Premier Cleveland Investing (scroll down to "resources").

But this was an awesome opportunity for me because this is my first living situation where I will be on my own (and getting used to paying a rent/mortgage) but this will put my overall mortgage on a 400k house at roughly $2000 a month for the first year!

For me, on my properties, it's been pretty good.

Just like how Johnson & Johnson or Coca-Cola send you quarterly dividend checks, your tenants are sending you monthly "dividends" in the form of rent.

Hello, it is really time consuming for me to analyze each property by manually entering its data to calculate the return.

The other factor that's relevant for me is that my husband is a high end W-2 wage earner and we could greatly benefit from the potential tax benefits of actively managing the property. 

We have both always been interested in forming some partnership in which I do the leg-work and he provides the finances.

For me >12 mo for long term cap gains. 

This is very much a learning process for me 50% rule, 2% rule so on so forth.