As a bonus, you can use it for your personal record keeping as well.

My property manager is insisting he only needs one person to sign it given he only needs one SSN on the W9 for tax reporting purposes.

Where to start with guidance and then drilling down what my personal potential is?

Loo at these two:https://www.verisk.com/real-estate/products/xactprm/https://www.xactware.com/store/PRODUCTS/1-200.do

Send him a letter, emphasize that you are personally yourself the end-buyer, include proof of funds, include something attesting to you being financeable (unless your proof of funds is for the full cash purchase price).If he owns 20 local businesses, good chance he's in at least one chamber of commerce, and if he's not, he 100% knows people that are, who will spill the beans and offer to do an intro if you mention you're interested in buying a gas station over a beer or a meal (there's probably like 3 people in that city that fit this description, why not get introduced to all 3?)

If I personally understand the skin in the game first hand, I would think this will help me become a better manager of my team on it in the future right? 

However, I know a lot about it because I use to finance the Mexican banks as a banker and, since I put development projects together these days, I'm interested to know any new financing product available to the buyers.Regarding the two links posted above, it's buyer beware:a.

Do you think it's best to buy with a licensed, or UNlicensed person?

Starting multiple discussions with the same post just scatters the comments, and is counter productive. 

Also, while I've read some horror stories about assessed value increases, our personal portfolio came out relatively unscathed during this recent batch of tax bills.