In early 2018 I got the real estate bug and spent most of the year reading and listening to podcasts. 

Monday night, Tues, Wed, Thu nights (that's 4), and Friday you drive back home.For professions like long haul truck drivers, the general understanding is that nights spent with the head on a pillow at "work" (ie, in the truck, in a motel) do not count towards the >50% test.

So if you work 2050 hours a year at your w2 job- And you can prove via detailed, onging time tracking logs...that you spent MORE time than that over the course of the year then you could potentially claim it. 

But, in all honesty, I haven't really spent too much time with management companies, so I couldn't elaborate on the particulars there.

I just spent 2 hrs talking to AOA (Apartment Owners Assoc) rep..they offer assistance to landlords of SFH etc aw well as apts..

I have spent 10’s of thousands on classes for real estate and to date have had 2 humbling flip experiences.

As for your deep insights into the industry and patronizing assumptions, my wife and I own real estate across central Florida and have done so for many years, on top of which I grew up in a real estate family - in another country - and spent most of my weekends as a child attending auctions on Saturdays and rehabbing homes on Sundays and on school breaks.

I ended up getting about $22,000  in credits from the seller on that one, so money well spent.

A/C systems are not cheap trust my I just spent 10k replacing the one for my primary residence but that is what you have to do in Florida (A/C is life). 

The pressure was on because we had now spent nonrefundable investor capital and the only way of generating a return was to complete the building, on budget and schedule, lease to tenants, and begin generating cash flow.We spent the next two months re-designing the building in an effort to squeeze out every drop of revenue potential, while holding construction costs at an affordable level.