The general contractor will only need to manage the project and dose not need to do any of the work himself, but can decide to do some of the "handyman" tasks and pocket the money set aside for those.

The book, albeit is quite basic, it makes the task seem a whole less daunting of a task. 

I prefer to work with a different lender just because I have heard that they stay very involved the whole time and I can only work on one task at a time with the way their draw system works.

I have looked around and stressed a few options, but have had a hard time finding hard money lenders for business acquisitions, and finding financial partners has been an even harder task.

I'm considering hiring a virtual assistant to take care of some task for my REI.

He has directed me to some useful resources and gives me tasks to do every 4 days or less.

Never seen one of these, but there are IRS, DEA, Federal Terrorism Task Force, Homeland Security, etc type liens.   

It was not worth setting up the systems and taking on the task of becoming a PM/essentially starting a separate PM business for a just a few dozen units, to me, so I ended up just hiring a PM instead.

We use PriceLabs for dynamic pricing, and Breezeway for team management, cleaning automation, and assigning tasks for our handyman.

When it was raided by the drug task force, a LOT of damage was done.