I was speaking in aspects of doing a sales job to get a feel, while earning vs taking a marketing class..if that makes sense??

What may look like a great deal from afar might simply be a D-class neighborhood with higher cap rates that is, in fact, a bad deal. 

I agree  on the above but as an investor in this raising rate environment, asset-based (aka DSCR loans) are the way to go irregardless of Partnership or Solo venture purchases.

With one duplex, it should be about 1 or 2 hours a quarter.John Hyre has a pretty good class on how to set up your accounting. 

For my C-Class rentals I do:-3.5X earnings-No prior evictions-625 credit score-1st month's rent and security deposit-No smoking or vaping on the property-Pets depends.

Start with podcasts and listen to the first dozen or so episodes of the following: Mobile Home Park Mastery, Mobile Home Parks in Real Life, & Mobile Home Park Investors.That should give you a decent knowledge foundation to at least begin understanding the asset class and get you asking the right questions. 

Also your finishing work unless you are a natural will look less than professionalThe way to not get taken advantage of is to have multiple quotes, detailed contracts, and to do your homework on construction.Construction projects are as high risk, high reward, as D class inverting.

I also didn't have a team in the other location, where I did have contacts and handymen in the local environment. 

Long term Hold A class location.

This is the fundamental problem I have with Wall Street who takes too much fees off the hard-working efforts of the middle class.