I had 90 minutes of 24" crawl space meditation before my wife arrived to let me out. 5 months ago - I went in the crawl of a new constriction rental around 8am to check the framing.

My copy from Amazon was backordered even though I preordered (finally arrives tomorrow), but does Avery touch on this stuff in the book? 

I have heard similar stories from other folks on how some mgmt companies are offering lower fees, but at the end of the day, a lot of nickel and dime stuff gets added back into the mix and that 20% fee becomes a lot larger.

Keep trying, perhaps make friends with a neighbor and have them alert you when he arrives home.

Any guidance on this would be awesome, but I feel like I'm in analysis paralysis with some of this stuff.

The guys up at 6:00am to make sure they have everything and not running back to the store at 12:00pm because they forgot stuff or are just getting started are the guys you want to be connected with.3.

Personally I only follow three forums because it's local Indianapolis stuff and it helps my strategy to find distress properties. 

I will likely limit this to 5-8 people though, so first come first serve.I haven't done this before, but I figure we'd have an hourlong call 2x a month to discuss mostly stuff we are working on or trying to solve and exchange ideas.

I would say your best bet is just sitting down and seeing if they know their stuff.

Devoting energy to Facebook threads for this type of stuff keeps you from investing energy more profitably elsewhere.