It basically means you know nothing if your only source of knowledge is what the GP said and wrote.

Recommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

And 2) Filling bedrooms faster, we have a good lead source but its at the rate of 4 tenants a month. 1 home a month just isn't quick enough for me!  

The article https://www.thetaxadviser.com/newsletters/2021/feb/final-sec... is one source of helpful info on this topic. 

Sources for insurance and property taxes: Insurance - ValuePenguin, State Property Tax Rates - Rocket Mortgage.Low risk of natural disaster: Natural disasters can devastate your property and the surrounding community, leading to job losses and the closure of shops and businesses.

I'm particularly passionate about growing quickly from SFRs into Multi-family and currently developing tools to source and assess deals.Outside of real estate, I enjoy long-form conversations with brilliant people, or at least watching them when there aren't other people around to converse with.

If BP is not already thinking about it, I think there will come another platform that will pull in all the information from platforms like BP and other credible sources to build an intelligent conversational AI that gives real time and historical real estate related data for investors and stakeholders and at some point home buyers might not even need some of us anymore. 

The latter process would take more time (due to capital generation from other sources), cash investment and end up with much less capital appreciation over time but would also carry much less potential risk. 

You'll see a lot of the companies out there focus on the novelty of fractional ownership instead of sourcing quality real estate investments.

Not saying you do not know how to do this, but make sure you pick the right lead source and know what that lead source will be giving you.