You add your coverage yourself online and can see all your properties listed on one screen to manage them.

Check out other online guides available here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides3.

Call a different number you found online associated with the same company, etc. 

Rehab contractor charged $10K, the online report says $16K.

You can also check their reviews online at Google, Facebook, or Yelp.

I have been reading the online resources about getting started, searching the market, and even doing tours, but I am hesitant to jump in and buy a house as I have quite a large amount of student debt.

If you do not find success there, there are some online companies like SpaceJoy, Decorilla, Havenly etc.

We use DealCheck to underwrite deals and QuickBooks Online for everything related to accounting and budgeting.

I’d love to hear about the crime rates or any other issues (which we cannot guess from the online stats), and how easy or hard it is to find reliable tenants and property management companies.

You may have to do this several times for all the different tasks being done.The only labor cost not covered by this type of online inquiry is drive time from the businessto the property, to the store & back for supplies and then back to the business address.