While you're there, drive into surrounding towns and neighborhoods to scope out for future reference.If after awhile, you can ascertain you have a trustworthy PM and that your market fundamentals in that area continue to be good, you can feel good about adding to your position by buying another property in that area.

Fundamentally it's all driven by supply and demand, everything else is just noise.

My fiancé is currently getting her real estate license and i've been scouring the inter-web to learn about it myself.  

Without knowing anything else about your project, I’d say stick to the fundamentals and be conservative with your estimates. scale back profit a point or two, increase reserves a few points and take it from there. 

This will provide you with your most fundamental costs. 

A lot of demand is driven by property values and fundamentals, both of which are extremely strong right now,” said Jamie Woodwell, MBA’s vice president of commercial real estate research.

My gut feeling is that I probably will try to find a co-host first but unlike PMs that are advertised all over the web, I am not sure how to identify a list of cohosts to interview from. 

Super solid book of the fundamentals to get anyone started in that space. 

But if i do then really the navigation was just search the web and watch a few videos and decide what firm I wanted to use to transfer my old 401k into..

The buildings were 100% occupied and well-under market rate with no web presence.