Make sure you set aside a monthly budget for maintenance and have the proper insurance in place for maximum protection.I would suggest starting with a single family unit before multi-family as you get used to the business. 

Regarding your script you might try a less business like approach and change it to sound more like just a private individual looking to buy a property.  

What I did was a Business Line of Credit on all of the properties.

I'm nervous because I've never had a business before and I still have a full-time job as a cloud solutions architect, which I'm really passionate about - so hopefully it won't be my golden handcuffs that may prevent me to thrive as an investor and  I'm excited because of all the benefits and freedoms being a business owner offers, one of which is to connect and collaborate with forums like this and people like all of you, where I can both learn from and hopefully share later as I develop more experience. :-)

If the seller's address was in another county, I performed a similar search on that county appraisal district.I followed that up by searching Google, FB, Instagram, and other websites, depending on my guestimated age of the sellers, for more information about the seller.

I recently received a letter stating that due to our property not performing up to standards, they will automatically be reducing our collections % down from 58% to 50%.

This drives us to have a little higher barrier to scaling my investing business, however I am trying to go far, not fast. 

They say it’s busy season.

I and my business partner currently have over 30 units in Martinsburg and will continue to buy in Berkeley County.

Many businesses take on debt to make money did these millionaires benefit from business debt but never personally took out debt.