Well, I have often posted advice similar to this: do not publish on the internet how much money you have available, especially if you are new ... there are too many scoundrels out there who would be happy to separate you from that sum of money.You have chummed the waters, and the sharks can detect that and swoop in ... 

Additionally, @Michael Blank published a great eBook on raising private capital for multifamily synidications.

Although I’m not sure there’s a big enough market for self managed VRs to make a book worth while, I am a published author. 

All publish their fees so you can use a spreadsheet to determine the lowest cost solution.

I've bought a few of the BP published books, listen to the BP podcast fairly regularly and recently upgraded to a Pro membership. 

Is it fair to say that if I approach an architect with ideas for the floor plan and layout (sketched diagram), the price for publishing plans would be cheaper? 

Deffered maintenance may show up as an average expense, but the property inspection will take care of that too.A quick check of tax accounts, accrued income tax or payables will be something that I would base the real income upon.

You are taking over a bad house, giving them some cash today and safely securing their equity with a note payable at some point in the future.

If you want to publish email newsletters you'll need a proper newsletter tool like Activecampaign, Mailchimp, and so on.Biggest tip: Try a bunch of CRM tools and see which one you like.

If you wait until spring, BP is publishing a book on this very topic, written by yours truly.