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I'm currently looking at multi-families (likely to house hack) but most modest duplexes are going for 499k+, which is right at the budget I set for myself.

Search my posts and blogs on BP and you can get up to speed on those. 

I'm just getting started and I’ve been trying to absorb as much information as possible, books, podcasts, blogs etc. 

For the past three months or so, I’ve made it a point to read at least two BP blogs every day, I finished reading The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide, and just started reading The Book on Rental Property Investing, with several other BP produced books waiting on my bookshelf.

It's only so much we can gain through passive learning (reading blogs, listening podcasts). 

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

I'm sure you'll be able to find info via blogs and websites about commercial real estate.

I recently wrote a Biggerpockets blog about this topic.  

Use the search bar for "property management software" and you'll find thousands of forums, blogs, etc.Most people are using Cozy.co, TenantCloud, Avail, Renttecdirect, etc.