It will be a panel of four professionals in the lending field, hard money, private money, conventional lending, and an investor that has used them before.

Thank you for sharing your approach.I would think that a seller/buyer would really value the fact that licensed professional is involved in a transaction, but in my rather short experience, people out there are suspicious about the motives of a real estate agent vs just regular buyer.

@Anna Dube - if you plan to hire a PM company use a vertical platform like Buildium, Appfolio, Rentec Direct etc.  

Entrenched professional squatters.

 ( am an active real estate professional, spending 15-20 hours/week on the rentals.  

I am a young professional living and working in Boston, Massachusetts.

RS Means is the best; it's the one a lot of professionals use. 

Just do what keeps you focused on income productive things and hire others to help you.  

It's an option that can be used to get into the business, but if you should do it can only be determined by you and your husband, possibly with the help of a CPA or similar professional. 20-45k is generally enough to get started, depending on what you're getting into and where you are.If you are going to be risking your primary residence with a HELOC, my suggestion is that you make sure you could handle the possibility of that money going into a failing investment and getting lost.

if he takes care of all that it may be worth it, figure out what your costs would be to hire outside services and see if it saves you money, is the place that big that you need an onsite manager or will it cost you less to hire a PM company ?