A follow up question I now have would be do you think its smarter to completely pay off the first property before buying a new property or to keep going out and buying new properties once i have enough saved up for the down payment along with extra fees?

I can probably teach it, but I won't be spending that kind of money for the platform and I doubt people who wants to learn are willing to pay for the platform and tutoring fees. 

As I understand, landlords there cannot charge application fees, security deposits and evictions are VERY challenging.Have communicated with several PMCs and investors in Ohio market and not aware of any real differences from Michigan. 

After all the fees from closing and paying back the interest on the private loan my new loan was at 335k.

I looked into the maintenance option years back to discover a trend of:  apx. 8% monthly fee which only included rent collection (everything else from maintenance to turnovers etc, extra, and poor reputation on repairs.)

Just plan on paying the agent's fee if you are successful.

I'm not satisfied with not filing the rental in an LLC simply because it's more simple and might cost me an additional filing fee .

So huge portion of investment is not even depreciable. 2) All the repairs and property management fees etc are real expenses.

You will have to pay an annual fee for this service, but it takes the repairs and Tenant requests off your plate. 

With this, along with shifting the utilities to the tenants and reducing the management fee to generate an NOI of around $103k, I'd estimate the value around $1.8M to $2.0M