By no means am I attempting to bash hard money because they definitely fill a niche but  If you have sufficient income, assets, and credit to qualify for conventional loans then that is probably a much more cost efficient route to go. 

It will be hard to find a good property manager that will manage this property efficiently.

My thoughts are this would be a way to scale up efficiency for an assistant rather than have them sit around with nothing to do on some days for $15-$20 an hour.

It is also very important to have the right system in place that's effective and efficient.

We explored tapping one of the proprietary property API's (ReportALL, Zillow, several others) but the manual work associated with formatting the data set in the API response negated any efficiencies gained during the automated lookup via API calls. 

Looking for an organized and efficient property management company for our portfolio of rental properties

Some attorney have an "e-file" which is much quicker and efficient but the attorneys usually charge a higher fee to provide this service.

I can write an offer in 5 minutes - UT contracts are relatively short, and our MLS is kind of functional and efficient when it comes to populating forms. 

. $225,000-$250,000.00 -max cost Includes all closIng costs, InItIal purchase, updates for energy effIcIency and a few code updatesloan type tbd lookIng for offers.

More units tend to be more efficient for your numbers.