If you are like I was, the answer to that "What are you good at?"

It sounds like wholesaling could be appealing due to avoiding some of those costs, but the margin is slim between your total investment and the ARV.

Professionals like attorneys and CPAs are not contractors however.

The metric to measure whether it works or not is the CONVERSION RATE, not whether or not a deal was made.If your conversion rate is 0.03% (like it usually is for DMM), spending more money to get more mailers out does NOT change the effectiveness of that strategy.

Th just seems like a huge cost for someone like me with only 6 properties, no matter how many features it has.

But I also know it might be a risk throwing something like this on him.

Does he want something more on autopilot that is more like 1 hour a week? 

They are a great option for situations like the one you described. 

For long term holds I like upward transistional neighborhoods where I can see future forced appreciation while the asset cashflows. 

If you have any tips you'd like to share, please feel free to reach out.