I would equate it to managing yourself when you are not set up to manage properties.There is scalability in this...Now to play the Devils advocate if you get autopayments set-up you can always figure out how much interest was paid each year and what your payoff is so just decide how competent you are in that and be honest with yourself, there is nothing wrong in outsourcing parts of your business.

Most real estate agents don't understand the investor side of the business.

Tools like knife etc if have a business use you can write off.

Counter is that it's arguably not just a house, it's a running business.

It has been performing very smoothly, zero unexpected expenses + having the rent steadily in my account every month.

What the “wholesaler” decides to do vis a vie the seller is his/her/their business.  

Let's do some business together.

How can your business sustain itself without cash flow?

My question for you experienced investors are what programs are you using to find tenants, perform background checks, and create leases as I do not want to hire a property manager off the rip.

Decided I liked the property management business the best, moved to AZ in 2011, gradually sold all of my rentals in Minnesota, flipped a couple more in Mesa while getting my Real Estate license to do property management.