For the situation you laid out in the OP, no need for a CA RE License.

If you're gone the majority of the week, I recommend you have property management or someone you can rely on to take care of things when you're gone.

Thank you so much for your time and visiting!I've read various posts about what type of professionals to hire and gone through some courses on BP.If you know of a course/post that answers this question please refer it...

The Atty will take care of getting the title company, creating the contract etc

Looks like somebody got a little desperate when their flips didn't work out and opted for fraud instead.  Allegedly.Colorado Springs Ponzi Scheme

He lets me know that he put in an additional sump pump on the other end of the basement, replaced the gas valves in the boiler and water heaters, is having the mold taken care of, and has fixed a few other odds and ends. 

And tenants don't care about your Spreadsheets.Scale up a decent sized portfolio & the good stretches of some properties will carry you through the rough stretches of others.

(I've only just become aware of his clout/non-clout around the corridors of power).It came to my attention that he believes that January 1, 2018 is going to be the day that the next phase of their plan will be put into motion, and (from what I've read) he reckons there's nothing the President can do to stop Countries from diversifying away from the US dollar (into Distributed Ledger Technology).What say then the USA about their strategy of "quantitative easing", if that happens?

We also take very good care of the good tenants.

Be careful not to get too leveraged.