Properties in C and D neighborhoods are extremely difficult to manage, and most PMs will not devote the significant effort required to manage a property in a C or D area, because it's not worth the tiny return they get on the property (assuming it's just a single fam or small multifam property...the dynamic is different for large multifam). 

Please don't think I'm trying to be negative or troll-y, but if any developer has an algorithm for this, I would wager that developer would be reluctant to publish such proprietary information on the web so they can have more competition.The Knoxville market, and probably most/all of its sub-markets, have cooled substantially due to affordability and lots of other factors.

I'm seeing high electric bills in our STR properties and was wondering if anyone had tried using a web thermostat to reduce power usage when the unit was vacant. 

Search the bigger pockets web site where Scott Smith wrote an article about it last year.

I tried searching the web and only seem to get sponsored ads for firms.

We are open to devoting a decent amount of money on a lawyer to draft some terms and agreements.- We are open to each of us renting the other half of the duplex out at any time, or selling (via a TIC?)

If you do, I suggest keeping it simple and adding a few columns to that spreadsheet to note who replied, who's mail bounced, who is a cold lead, who is a hot lead.To access this spreadsheet on-the-go, you can store it in Google docs and thus update it from your phone or wherever.Of course, if you want a fee-based solution, there are quite a few other (web-based) options.

We feel that a good option is to invest in some turnkey property initially while we are still full time, then after getting out of the military, we can devote more time to being active real estate investors.

I have a document that I built through Canva that lies out on Amazon Web services that we send the link to in the check in  email.

:Person 1: Little experience, limited time, but will be investing 80-90% of the funds for acquisition & rehab of the propertiesPerson 2: Has 20-25 years of real estate knowledge & experience, will be investing 10-20% of any needed capital, can find & analyze the deals, devote the time/energy/legwork, manage any renovation projects, has a database of buyers/sellers, holds a RE licenseThank you in advance!