As a buy and hold investor, I've been watching Madisonville carefully but have yet to pull the trigger.

He knows his way around Detroit like no one else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

You CAN spend your entire day just getting organized.After watching the video in the link above I must remind myself to carve out those 15 minutes to become clear and wash away the distraction to focus on the bigger game.  

Next thing is Keywords:I recently watched a podcast with some dude that had a guest that was an expert on SEO.This is what said "expert" said.Oh yeah for every 400-500 words, put a keyword in there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

I recently watched a bigger pockets podcast that hosted a guy who bought 3bed/2bath, yr 2000 built properties for 80k cash and rented them for 1,000$+ that weren't in awful neighborhoods.

What would be a good price to pay for a consultation, and what shady business practices should I watch out for?

I turn them on for all the reasons above, but there are downsides.The druggies that are homeless do watch and see a house being rehabbed with water and electricity and move in, or sometimes just stay the night and leave before the workers come in the morning. 

Even if a GC is running things - who watches the GC?

Trump has indicated they may take a stronger position but our attornies haven't seen any action yet.AZ is watching closely to see how cases go etc, right now we just deal with it!