But above all, I see this as valuable learning experience, however as I'm still slogging through this endeavor, it's hard to see what the lessons are yet, as most of my troubles appear to be outside my control.

You’ll find plenty of friendly, knowledgeable people willing to help respond to your questions.The site has quite a few tools that can be helpful for new members.

Would love to offer my skills and tools as a realtor to help as well! 

Thank you Taylor & Joe for your valuable advise.

Hey team,Currently have my first unit, got our lease signed, and I'm getting into the swing of things.I feel I always knew the broad strokes, but now that I'm in the thick of things it's definetly taken more than I expected since I'm having to learn as I go.Looking at costs for admin tools (docs, signing, screening) seems like it'd cost the same for a property management tool (buildium, yardi) versus doing it manual (rhawa, docusign)When did you decide to move away from managing manually?

These are some super powerful seller financing tools that can help with your current situation.

Hey Everyone, I was curious if there was a tool or site that helps people narrow down their desired area they would like to invest in.

I have found this to be a helpful tool when comparing different areas.As Greg alluded to, I would take this data with a grain of salt as I am sure they just use an algorithm to create the forecasts.

I've tried to gather data via a tool called Mashvisor but the platform seems buggy and I'm not sure if I can trust that data.Aside from manually scrapping info on Zillow, Realtor.com, etc.

Depending on the level of complexity, you can mange it yourself - there are a lot of tools that can help to automate the guest communication.