I'd also encourage you to set up with Pricelabs so you can dynamically price your property according to your competition and how well your property performs. 

@Kevin Young I really like Pricelas for helping me with dynamic pricing.

Both are good reads an informative, but I'm more of a visual an hand on learner. 

Visualizing helps you identify the necessary actions, resources, and milestones to move closer to your desired future.Overcoming Obstacles and Resilience: Visualizing your future state can help you anticipate and navigate obstacles.

Conduct thorough research on the local real estate market to understand its current conditions, trends, supply and demand dynamics, and potential growth prospects.How will I finance the investment?

I also want to add the dynamic of additional siblings who refuse to sign off on anything so that my mother can get a loan in her name since technically the home belongs to all of the siblings. 

Philadelphia is one of those cities where you can literally cross one street and the entire dynamic changes.  

The lease would dictate all of this, but I've found that tenants could use visual reminders as to the rules. apparently no one does this?

It's really hard to visualize the layout and your scenario without having photos, etc. but depending on how things are configured (incoming water line, water heater, etc.)  

No matter how much you say you can separate business from friendship as soon as your friendship enters a business relationship the dynamic changes.