These groups/syndicators put out blogs, appear on podcasts, write books about passive investing, many start "guru courses" and pay for marketing to find LPs.  

Are they on Venmo, Chase-Quickpay or Paypal (to make it easy to pay them...)

I believe it is WAY better to pay someone who knows exactly what they are doing and let them do it. 

Don't pay for a Tax Lien investing course.

You'll pay high interest, which offsets the interest you earn on a new investment.

All PG&E, SDG&E, SCE, and community choice aggregation residential customers — except for California Alternate Rates for Energy, or CARE, and Family Electric Rate Assistance or FERA, customers — will have to pay this tax, and it cannot be reduced or avoided, no matter how little energy a household uses.

My numbers are kind of tight on cash flow due to a blanket loan (had to do to pay off lots of debt/rehab). 

Odds are, you would come out ahead by paying to have it managed and just continuing to work. 

That said, I hate paying retail for anything so I'd probably just build my own locally and hold them for rentals lol

  $500K is exempt from cap gains if you're married the remaining is what you pay cap gains on.