From our experience with clients, you’d typically expect to pay around $1,000–$1,500 for a single-property return, depending on your situation.If that $6K includes monthly bookkeeping and accounting, it could be reasonable; it could also be low, or high... it all really depends on the number of transactions, bank/credit card accounts, and the complexity of your finances.

All in all I'm a bit lost in all of this and hoping to at least break even with my current property while keeping the mortgage low on my next property.

Because, it's way too low. 

Some even offer preferred interest rates as low as 5.75% at no cost to you. 

House hacking is an excellent strategy, especially with the potential to use an FHA loan to secure a property with a low down payment. 

I'm a 20x AirBnb superhost who realized I have more productive uses of my time than hosting directly.

We are in a constricted market cycle, low volume, strained budgets, high costs.

Inventory seems low, and I am trying to househack my first unit.

Or you can offer a low enough price to make sense.

I sent him a list of my questions ahead of time which really seemed productive to me.