Many paying all cash without any third party assistance in reviewing the property or assessing its value or inspecting the renovation work and permits. 

I’d definitely be interested in shadowing and/assisting people for more experience.

Do showings instead this will reduce the time you are spending.

Ill be moving in three years to either Hawaii or Colorado - and I would love to find a way to manage them all without having to spend ~$900/mo between my 3 properties.

And here's the kicker: I am having to spend far more to fix the house up to sell than I made from renting it out for 6 years.

And, document any and all property preservation money you spend. 

What I do is offfer my angry tennants the opportunity to get into real estate investing, offer them work in maintaining properties, collecting rents, and offer guidance on them being able to buy their first place of their own.Don't you think they would love to have at minimum two jobs to be able to save up the money , work their ends off to build up their credit, hunt down deals, and negotiate a purchase, invest their money knowing there is no guarantee of ever getting your money out of it or of profiting, have to spend thousands of dollars or 10's of thousands of dollars, even hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to be a ble to provide others with housing?

Three months later our tenant didn't pay rent and we had to start an eviction which ended up in her abandoning the property and us spending $8,000 in a cleanup/rehab of the property.

You can even do some of this yourself, but you probably will miss a lot of things if you don't have a professional assisting you.Best of luck!

I simply find and finance the properties and assist in sourcing the remodel to sub contractors.My 2017 tax returns were just filed and I was filed as a dealer, but another accountant states I should’ve been filed as an investor.