We have been contemplating pairing down that list by taking steps to make it more valuable addresses (driving to look at them, doing further research), and eliminating a bunch of those.

If you have a clear understanding of their buying criteria you can better pair a property with a buyer.

A good marketer can market about anything, but most in RE that have a marketing influence usually get it wrong treating RE like a pair of shoes.

Shirt, jeans and a pair of shoes or slippers will do.

Minimizing PITA: No more managing tenants, vacancies, maintenance and the managing the manager (who is a $12-20 dollar employee who's compensation structure us not aligned with your goals) By passing the control of the day to day operations to true experts who are literally partners (direct alignment of compensation and motivations), you can assure the investment is being optimized while you spend your time on what you want which is 1) making more money at your day job, 2) spending time with your family or 3) finding that one off deal that you want to do one your own while pairing with a Limited Partner strategy. 2.

Now if you pay me $5000 I will dazzle you with the Black-Scholes foreign currency option pricing program that I wrote in business school to approximate option pricing from statistics available in the Wall Street Journal.

The US is on a ride that will end some day in a major way.We cannot keep printing money to pay for the costs of the money already printed and sold via bonds/treasuries if the value of our currency moves down without printing tons more money which in itself will devalue the currency...

Leases of one year being typical and normal, paired with the above, is why charging 1/12th the annual rent each month makes sense, rather than prorating days. 

If I sell you a pair of shoes from the mall for $50 more than what you wouldve paid had you gone to the mall you would probably be a bit unhappy about that.

Central Banks have made it apparent (especially over the last month) that they will print our currency until they can't.