Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books for this or you can learn by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.

They feel the need to tell me they’ve been there 9 years and that they know their tenant rights in every interaction I have.

If I had to guess, I would say maybe we have 1-2 contacts with a tenant in a given year… on average… meaning for 4 tenants… you might have 8-10 interactions in a year for a ballpark “amount of effort it takes”.  

Question for Real Estate Agents:  At what point/after how much interaction with a prospective client, do you assume you have an unspoken agreement to work together? 

At the bottom you can look at references written by BP members and actually interact with the writer through BPs message system.I'll reach out with some information and a colleague request. 

I have found several with two entrances / split levels and a common laundry space such that I could rent 2-3 BR to another family or 2-3 professionals and earn $1500-2000/mo on a $200-250k purchase while living cheaply in the other 1000 SF of the house and having limited forced interaction with the roommates/tenants. 

I met them and felt good about my interactions with the team.

And actually interact with folks who have used them before as real (not anonymous) references. 

I've had positive interactions with them so far.  

Don't you want to interact with anyone while you are cooking?