I have awesome property mgrs who are worth their weight in gold who do a great job. 

A good broker is worth their weight in gold for 1 point, but there are sharks out there that will try and tell you that because you're new the points are 4. 

There are a lot of bad ones out there, but the good ones are worth their weight in gold...

Brett residential is more straight forward.Commercial is a whole different Universe for evaluating properties.The income approach is used with more weight than comparable sales.

Competition for foreclosures is tough enough since they are such a small part of the market buying with an FHA loan makes it nearly impossible ,throw in your overheated Sacramento market   even lessens the possibility 

The more general rounding in all 4 areas can give us a bit of an advantage over an EA.However, a good EA, like @Steven Hamilton II is worth his weight in gold.Both designations have training in state taxation and both can represent you in front of the IRS/Tax Court in the event you are required to do so.

I don't give school ratings much weight. 

For the most part, we've had to deal with dogs and so we tied the deposit amount to the weight of the dog.

And then there's the emotional weight you have just lifted.If you can't do any of this stuff yourself, other ideas for funding:(a) personal loan from your credit union(b) HELOC(c) cash advance of credit cards(d) personal loan from family/friend(e) payment plan with contractorIt's not really that bad. 

Hi Brennen - Any partnership in business can be a struggle - it takes work, accountability, trust, each pulling their own weight, etc. so you need to make sure that all those bases are covered before committing to any partnership.