I'm also buying for some cashflow and I feel like with SFH you are banking more on appreciation and the benefit when the property is paid off.

He/she did not requested it, nor benefit from it.

An additional, often undiscussed benefit of a property manager is the emotional distance between the owner and tenant.  

It seems like there are some pretty good benefits on the procurement side if you go owner occupied such as being able to bid before investors, qualifying for FHA loans. and using the rents as income on the qualification.

I have seen and heard tons of discussions on the topic of the LLC and in one of the recent podcast, the series LLC was discussed along with its build-in benefits. 

Legally speaking; A service animal means any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability.

I can definitely see the benefit of real-time help as Karen Margrave mentioned.

And you get the benefit of having over 100 past ones to catch up on.Locate and attend 3 different local REIA club meetings great place to meet people gather resources and info.

Let me digress before the age of the internet and HGTV it was cool but only a few new about all the benefits of B&H and or flipping. 

On the one hand managing 5  or 6 properties is the sweet spot for being able to qualify for all things residential and is easily doable for a busy person; on the other hand it is becoming tougher because you don't have the benefits of scale where the income becomes more significant and helps you through a vacancy or 2.