I love to connect with others here who might be willing to share advice, resources, or success stories if anyone has tips for me as a beginner or any recommendations, I’m all ears.

Any tips for someone weighing those options?

Assessments in NJ are not done on sale, unless it's a new build or a complete renovation where the permits tip them to reassess, so every three years or so they reassess all of the properties and taxes go up most of the time.

Hopefully, based on actual field measurements, past project data, and estimating software, your contractor can develop a detailed estimate that lays out the cost of labor and all materials for each phase of the project.

@Tomas FalconWelcome to the community and be ready for a huge amount of information at your finger tips.

Possibly but the problems I’m having stem from having too many cooks in the kitchen already so to speak, and failures of what is supposed to be seamless transitions among different payment systems, so I’d be worried that adding another layer of complication, more entities and more software could lead to more potential failure points.

One tip is too is reaching out to some people in your market place that are doing flips and see if they can send you their spreadsheet they are using.

I use the Rent Redi software to manage my tenants, so everything is done electronically.

From my own personal experience and from others I think most reach the "tipping point" from self managing to using a PM somewhere between 5-15  units, especially if you have a W2 and want to continue to scale. 

Class D is mostly rentals (another tip to look at owner occupied stats and/or if the neighborhood is identified for revitalization), the tenants are outside smoking, they are talking to neighbors and solicitors, it is a completely different vibe that is pretty noticeable just driving through.