Self manage from 2300 miles away is a challenge but it's not so bad if you look at what it costs you to hire a PM(on average 12-14% of gross rents) with our numbers it's thousands a month in fees. 

You could hire someone to install everything one time.

Would you highly recommend hiring a freelancer to do part time?

I am more than willing to be someone’s virtual assistant, manager, envelope stuffer, and etc in exchange for expertise.I am super excited to be amongst such talent and expertise in the field.

I don’t see what good hiring an attorney would do if he can’t pay then he can’t pay. 

In my PA market I've bought multi-family properties at between 2% and 3% (monthly rental income/property price); I'm holding out in the PA market unless I can buy a larger multi-family (I don't want a PM and will hire and train someone in-house if I buy a larger MF there).I wondered what y'all are looking for when potentially pulling the trigger in the market you invest in? 

Ideally, I would like to be able to contact an appraiser in the area and would be interested in hiring his services for suggestions on how to maximize value.Many thanks in advance.

We are literally throwing everything we can at the problem; sky high pay, amazing benefit packages, school tuition reimbursement, hiring bonuses... and it's not infilling the gap, the rate of skilled journeys aging out is still higher then rate or new tech entries. 

If you have the funds to buy and fix the property, why would you do an equity split with a contractor and not just hire him to do the work?  

My wife is actually a photographer so she took pictures but we did hire a second photographer as well as had drone photos taken.