So, you'd want to go into it knowing you were going to: go all out to beat your competition, have a distinctive property, stand out online, and have your return compensate you for the headache of running a little hospitality business.Does that help? 

I'd recommend starting to network with local REIA and joining community groups or online forums related to real estate.

Unfortunately, I don't think it's realistic that you will find a generic commercial lease online that checks all the compliance boxes for your state, city, and county.There are limited service property managers that will do retail tenant placement (rather than full property management, which it seems like would be overkill for this one commercial unit you manage), and this would be included as part of that basket of services.You could also hire a lawyer, but I think that property management company will be more cost effective. 

I use Quickbooks online for the formal accounting so it's easy for my tax guy to get in there and do his piece every year, since I have an LLC per building.

ONLINE PRIVATE LISTINGSIf homeowners are looking to sell without a real estate agent, they’re likely on social media.

Anyway, I'm thinking maybe HF has more advantage for online bidding, as they could essentially create many virtual IDs and have a large pool of fund to leverage.

I would recommend first, finding and joining at least one if not more local real estate investor (REIA) meetup groups (look on Facebook or Meetup or just search online) and try to attend as many as you can to network with local folks doing all different avenues of investing.

Since you mentioned investing out of state, I'm assuming you're asking about getting a partner online, or at least not a friend/acquaintance.

Do you believe online accounting services like 1800 Accountant are good for the owner of a Real Estate LLC?

People will hear podcasts online about how a 25 year old investor bought 65 billion properties in one week and think that they have to do the same thing.