Here are a few suggestions on how you can maximize the wealth of information available: Check out the blogs and podcasts, or take advantage of the search feature (magnifying glass).

If anyone has tips or suggestions, I am more than open.For better or worse, I am taking a leap.

@Joshua Simmons Congrats on starting the journey!

Here's the problem - in order to be fully dialed in the model needs to be unstable.

From my own personal experience and from others I think most reach the "tipping point" from self managing to using a PM somewhere between 5-15  units, especially if you have a W2 and want to continue to scale. 

At the numbers you are talking about and where the market is heading you could pick up some very high quality NNN national credit tenant properties as commercial continues to recover. 

I'm following as I'm very interested in this as well.

Because the chances of successfully concluding a wholesale transaction when you lack experience, knowledge and capital are so infinitesimally small that you’d be better off playing the lottery.  

Hello @Alev G.Welcome to the BP community!

I know you're house hacking and so you'll be right there, but nothing prevents you from having a PM do the day-to-day.