And don't pay them based on percentage work done.  

Even facebook will have several "Michigan" or "Detroit" based real estate investor groups.  

If we were to turn our current home into a long term rental based on comps we would be in the positive around $700-$900 a month.

I'm talking about when you die, vesting in Living Trust allows stepped up basis to heirs based on the current value and you sell- this is about INCOME tax not property tax

Based from your experience, is it better to keep the pool or retire it?

Based upon your post the Greater Boston area and markets even slightly outside definitely seem to fit what you are looking for so just wanted to see if there was something you were considering as a negative factor.. 

Right now we have 2 units that are vacant, ready, and being marketed, and with the 'asking rent' reductions we just did to try to fill them faster (it's offseason for leasing), the estimated market value of the building based on net operating income is now $1,542,500.

Or based on the real value from a strong NOI?

Fort Worth based with the organizer Jimmy Reed.

I am not on Pricelabs yet but looking at the rates for March, they look like what I would expect them to be based on our previous analysis.