At the same time you are establishing your reputation and essentially interviewing for a longer term position. 

Plus Brie's podcast are fantastic they interview turn key buyers the real man or women on the street who has purchased these.. however with all the web folks out there finding someone to upgrade the site is no big deal or significant cost..

Steven Jean-Jacques I would suggest that you interview several Realtors and ask them the following questions, to ascertain if they are truly Investor Friendly, or if they are throwing you a sales pitch. 1.

He would offer for one of his agents to interview with them, as they should interview a few different agents, and potentially get the listing.

You may want to narrow it down to a few and then start interviewing TK companies.  

As an example of actionable items, we came up with a few such as read one real estate book a month per person, interview one contractor a month, set up an expense data base within 4 months, among other things.

You need to find a builder, interview him, get references, check them out and get more references.

I'll start digging into rental prices for homes of interest and interview property managers.

@Jeremy Salo at the end of the BP podcast there are some good book suggestions by the people being interviewed. 

I'd come up with a process to interview property managers and quantify your findings so that you could make an informed choice, should you choose to invest in RE.