To the right person, I'd be glad to start passing off deals for which I don't have the bandwidth to handle.  

I’m trying to get started in real estate investing.

I am just curious for those that have a Schlage Encode lock, have you seen it start going online and offline, especially during very cold weather.The weather at the lakehouse had been in the -15 to -25 range for about a week or so and the lock would go on and offline every hour to 3 hours.

Accounting function is extra so I don't know how that looks.If you are just starting, it might worth using it since it already comes with the BP Pro. 

I was thinking I’d start out by renting a room somewhere until I can figure out where I want to be.In the meantime, however, I’m looking for realtors, lenders that knows rehab loans and wholesalers.

I started out using property managers but was very dissatisfied with the services.

If you don't have any leads or don't know where to start here are a couple suggestions: ask brokers who people use for debt, find a mortgage broker as they have access to different buckets of capital, use a website like CoStar to look at closed transaction over the last 12 months and see who they used for debt.

I moved from Portland OR to Columbus OH to start house hacking.

I need to start buying my own properties.

Hey @Henry Lazerow - I would tend to agree that most of the NW side of Chicago 2-4 units don't play out perfectly well for BRRRR deals.I always looked at any potential house hack vs. having to rent - if my overall payments were less than the rent I generally considered that a win.For me...the house hack is just the ticket into the amusement park and then the fun rides come after...getting started can be overwhelming and hard so I can see why people might take a discount.I think one of the keys to strong equity creation is square footage creation which is basically what you outlined with duplexing up or down.