Or any burning questions I should ask of this management company? 

Ditto kids and their piles of unused toys.Formal dining rooms and "bonus" spaces are so last century.Where we once chose to test the limits of the planet's resources by (quote the pope here) "breeding like rabbits," we now limit our offspring and thus need fewer bedrooms.Where most of us once had giant SUVs taking up space in a big garage so that we could burn expensive fuel and hours of each day commuting into downtown from the 'burbs (the only place where we could fit all of these toys), we now own bicycles, bus passes and own/share sensible small electric vehicles...

(I already have a lender in place.)Though I agree, he doesn't seem motivated enough - but I do think I could have done a better job at figuring out why he wasn't interested in seller finance and addressing that issue, but I was afraid of being pushy.At the end of the day, we ended on good terms, and he said he'll call if he changes his mind - not as good as getting the deal, but better than burning the bridge.

My wife loves hot showers but you aren't taking that high of a temp without getting burned.

Many of these investors don't have big bank accounts with money to burn, and cannot afford to travel to other states should something go awry.

So much so that I wrote an article labeled "crash" and burn with an LLC :) Since we leverage and self manage, an LLC just didn't make sense of us. 

Yes, you can probably reduce cost of sales and perhaps other numbers but you cannot significantly reduce rehab costs and there will always be surprises which will burn you if you do not have sufficient funds set aside.

We have 2 in our house but I don't let the tenants use the wood fireplace because you never can tell what the students would consider burning.

My partner has guys out there who make $1 million a year who work 70 hours a week and burn out.

I'm a psychiatry resident who hopes to become a REI in a year or so when I have excess cash to burn.