An asset protection plan is an excellent start but so many layers to this question.  

You can just look for houses you like and run the numbers rather than focusing on small areas.As far as AirBnB, our market is fairly saturated so you really have to operate at a high level to stand out and/or have a really excellent location. 

If you want to offer liquor or wine, consider making it an optional package guests can purchase in advance—an excellent profit injection opportunity!

(we created a construction rescue program as a result of this) We provide excellent incentives for our investors,including locking in long term debt at 3.75 % through our in-house financing program. 2 years free property management as well.

Or all together forgetting?

The overall userbase and FAQ is excellent. 

If you're the kind of person who would benefit from a monthly budget microsoft Excel is probably your best friend . 

I'd like a systematic way, that's more efficient than my current excel sheet, to ensure I'm following up weekly with the same people while keeping notes etc.

@Mike Bator the good ones are, but just like in a baseball, there are those who are proactive and excellent at it just most of us play in a beer league on the weekend

So lucky for you partnerships dont actually need to be filed with the state, they can even be oral in nature.