Highlight all negatives about the house and neighborhood, have supporting low comps available to provide, and stress how much this selling family needs to get this behind them and rebuild their lives.....

It creates an underlying stress that sneaks up on me from time to time.

I will hire a property management company to manage and make my life less stressful for I go to work and college full time..

I want to stress, that I am not panning for sales or leads only trying to help out on this forum.

That's got to be stressed.

Has been stressful at all or has it gone mostly to plan? 

Although I thought getting a PM would help relieve some of the stress of a buy/hold, I hear so many horror stories--so now, I'm not so sure. 

This is very stressful.

Im glad that you are prepared, that's excellent, but you need to find a deal first that meets your criteria and then pull the trigger so you can start stress testing your systems with real market data.Also, RE investing can be subjective, everyone as their own bias.

My goals in order are this. 1. free up time to spend on non-profit "things", 2. reduce stress, 3. take 1/3 of stock portfolio and increase its ROI through real estate without hindering #1 & #2Other questions:1.