Making contacts and familiarizing ourselves with all aspects of the business along the way. 

Which aspects of the above do you feel most important at present?

Having an app for managing certain aspects of my rental property sounds beyond amazing!

Rentec seems to work good from that aspect.

I am merely suggesting that you educate yourself before you hire someone, unless you are willing to pay a full service GC retail pricing to handle every aspect, you will need to know some stuff.

This is the most overlooked aspect of agents.

True, there are many different aspects to note investing— it can’t be learned by the seat of your pants.

But they will come in and try to grind you on many, many aspects of your deal.

You'll find plenty of advice on all aspects of investing on this site...often from folks who have no experience in the area of which they're giving advice.

Yes one of the things I've picked up on surfing through the forums is to avoid narrowing in so much on the numbers and forgetting the real life aspect of real estate.