So you are on short term trial basis with them all.With option #2, clearly communicate "new landlord, new rules".

Up to 5 units for $25 a month to start out, after the free trial is over.

Keep a steady diet of learning and experience and you'll overcome those fears.  

you dont assemble a team and then start investing.you start investing and then you assemble a team by trial and error.what's their incentive to be on "your team"?

I put my first-ever yellow letter in the mail today to the owner of a property I found while driving around town (driving for dollars). I wrote down the address, went to the county clerk's website and found documents ...

I was looking into doing something similar and either using a CRM (lots of free ones out there or with good trials) or combining a Google Sheet with an add-on for mapping, so I can look at the list by neighborhood.I got the idea for the free CRM after Googling and finding a BP blog post that talks about the same exact thing (https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/02/1...).  

I really learned a lot since making this post threw trial and error.

Upon purchasing free trials from the 3 credit bureaus website my credit is 50 points higher than what was being shown on creditkarma.com (I encourage everyone who uses that site to also get scores from the actual credit bureaus...

Sure you can learn it by trial and error, but there is a cost to that, too, in time, opportunity cost, and mistakes made.That being said, anyone who mentors is going to expect and deserves to be paid one way or the other. 

Finding the company that works for you can be tricky and it may take a little trial and error to end up with the perfect people to work with.