Several friendly reminders were ignored. 

It ignores visitor dropouts caused by the website being uninteresting.When Google PageSpeed Insights shows your website conversion rate (performance) of 14% load, this means that by the time the website is fully loaded, you have only 14% of visitors, because it lasts a long 15 seconds.

Your example was not a good RE investment for there were other better options (in 2012 and 2013 I purchase 3 San Diego properties with market rent above 1.5% ratio).You seem to ignore where I indicated I have purchased some average purchases on my path to where I am today.  

We’ll totally ignore the $300k?

Some "commercial" oriented loans such as the DSCR loan will put the property's gross rent in the numerator and the PITI + HOA in the denominator while ignoring all other debts.

The legal aspects also scare me a bit, but that's mostly out of ignorance rather than knowledge of what goes into it.But since I've read a bit more it seems that hiring a PM might not be in my best interest.

Some kids were the opposite of their folks, some were identical to their folks.I appreciate the mention by @Steve Vaughan about getting my insight, but when my kids were young I was frankly too busy and too ignorant to pass much wisdom on. 

I can also say I'm very persistent, patient, and I ignore negativity.

That stigmatic mindset and ignorant attitude is a huge part of the problem we have here in this country.I lost my younger brother to a heroin fueled suicide.

Ignore him and I would interview more than one.However, I would try to work with a team instead of all-in-one.