Doing it this way has literally eliminated a week (in most cases) from our critical-path routine...

If you're going the umbrella insurance route, make sure it will cover you for several things including just the routine slip and fall (like mold or earthquake).

TurboTax or other tools may be able to fill out the forms for you, but as soon as you wander away from a basic routine you're much more on your own for knowing what to put where.

The property manger takes care of the routine day-to-day stuff, but you reserve to yourself the final decision on the major management decisions.

Now you've just bought yourself a regular route in your weekly routine, so you better get something close to you.

Yes, tax deeds are better for buy-and-hold but not for wholesaling or for retailing (although we routinely do this but only because we know what we're doing).

In general when analyzing the costs of my time, answering calls and performing routine minor tasks 10 percent is great.

Aloha,Renting rooms is fairly routine, but does require some additional planning and effort.

If you want to put in the work to acquire off-market deals by yourself then more power to you, however, it's best advised to work with someone who sources deals routinely and has their systems in place, aka a wholesaler or investor-focused real estate agent. 

If you are in a really hot location a setback on the thermostat is what you probably need, not routinely shutting it down.