Building relationships with as many of the senior commercial loan officers at the community banks will enable you to tap into as many resources as you can. 

Pulling all the good sub2 stuff together into one place like that would enable all of those tough searches to be simplified into "just hit that sweet page with everything good".

Are there not laws in Ohio that protect a landlord and enable him/her to enforce rental leases?

I'm hoping that by registering as a finance company it will also enable me to register as a loan originator, but I have a lot of research to do!

Lower payments increase cashflow and enable you to invest more (in RE, equities, etc). 

Technology has enabled communication with a remote CPA through phone calls, emails, skype etc.

There are online services that enable you to search for more detailed contact information, but those cost money and are usually designed to create mailing lists for a large number of properties that meet your search criteria.

We felt Zillow's Rent Manager had limitations for actually enabling us to manage the property and collect rent, but it was a valuable tool for helping us place tenants without having to pay a property manager to do it.

Much of what I have found says that cashflow is king and that net worth just looks good on paper as cashflow really enables you to live and invest now and banks look more at cashflow and debt/income than they do your net worth (my current debt/income is 14.9%).

I have a Network Attached Server (RAID enabled with 5 hard drives) with 10GB of space.