You are going to have to hire someone who knows what they are doing and hope you not just throwing money out window. 

Hire things out if you have no time for managing. use the money you make now to live personal expenses and use cashflow from properties to save, scale and acquire more assets. 

We've reached out with: attempt to create a partial payment plan, provided info on every relevant grant or assistance program available to them, provided info on local employers who were hiring, and offered cash for keys if they moved out.

Hire people to do one little task, when they get it done, move to another. 2.

Hire hourly, give small tasks, and fire them FAST if they don't perform. 2.

Perhaps a nice 1950's built bungalow.Always hire a 3rd party property inspector to give you an unbiased feel for the home.

(As in, at 4 I hired PM for all units, at 12 I started my own PM, at 30 I 1031'd all of my residential into a single commercial)

We hired a property manger and they did a background check on him.

Since my goal is to get 10 offers accepted that means I need to make 10k calls in 3 months.I'll probably hire a separate VA.

Are you going to be hiring a contractor to do the work?