There are great web-based services making PMs irrelevant.  

It basically just scours the web for similar content and then combines them into cohesive sentences with natural language processing.It's not actually generating any 'new' advice, it's just synthesizing the content that's been viewed and re-viewed on the web. i.e chatGPT has never actually built a $100m business, and its production database  (information leading up to EOY 2021 that is labeled "success, 100m, real estate investing, business") may not be the best guide for success in 2023 and beyond.Also the prime problem with non-technical 'influencers' like alex hormozi reviewing chatGPT is that he actually has no clue how the algorithm was built, how the models were trained, how applicable its results are over time, and what the model's limitations are.

Time to build the foundation below.Check out the Start Here page http://www.biggerpockets.com/starthere Check out BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginner's Guide - A fantastic free book that walks through many of the key topics of real estate investing.Check out the free BiggerPockets Podcast - A weekly podcast with interviews and a ton of great advice.

But in any case, you just have to make sure you are all on the same page about the direction you want to go or what you expect.You would probably need to look into how all the operations and legal and signature items will work with multiple members listed on the company docs.You mentioned needing to make twice the money, might be true, however half of something is better than half of nothing right.

Do you use your state contracts or get custom 1-2 page shorter contracts?  

This link is to a Quickbooks support site about setting up a budget in Quickbooks.http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/pages/inproducthelp/Core/QB2K12/ContentPackage/Core/Budget/task_budget_create.html

I initially paged around bigger pockets to see if I could find a mentor, but there really weren't too many investors in my local area who I'd consider to be "very big."  

Payroll, bookkeeping, etc can mostly be done remotely.Here is a great list of questions to ask a potential accountant:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/70447-questions-to-ask-a-cpaAlso check out the www.NAEA.org page in your search.

Check out the Start Here page http://www.biggerpockets.com/starthere Two Great reads, I bought both J.

Asana is a free web-based collaborative project management/task management program.