Going through the exercise of exploring your needs would really be beneficial here and that's what you've done exactly.

@Ryan Cleary, sounds like some good exercise!

Each partner must have specific roles and responsibilities...with no overlaps/redundancies.Each partner must be a partner for one of the following reasons. 

That extra money that you pay won't play a role in your debt to income.

If there are good threads or blog posts I could be linked to, please do that.I currently have a handful of properties and I’m looking to hire a virtual bookkeeper.We currently have a CPA and tax strategist we use (Hi Natalie), so I don’t need those rolled into this role.

Paying for introductions and not for placing capital is exactly what a finder should do so make sure your finders sign something and understand that this is their role.  

It also weird that if developer was / is acting in some sort of managing agent role that he would not paying taxes on parcels that belong to development company as well as parcels of vacation homes that were sold to others. 

During these exercises you will learn alot about yourself and the risk level and raw effort you are willing to take in order to achieve success. 

He has been month-to-month since July of this year and never exercised his option to renew.We're in the process of selling the station and the new buyers are requesting us to have the tenant vacate.

Still a lot of New York investors feeling out and exercising the Connecticut market.