One thing I’ve noticed is that having multiple financing or capital options lined up can prevent a last minute fall through.

Check with the companies Rhino Insurance and Obligo - these are big players in this field professional management companies work with, I'm not sure if they're open to self managing landlords-also not sure why they wouldn't be.

Finally, since you have very few degrees of freedom on the income and expenditure nexus, you may want to pay particular attention to preventive maintenance to help avoid getting hit with a big capital cost item.   

Example:  Which part is preventing you from finding the tenant? 

Don’t assume a group loan solves that automatically; each person’s share of the debt needs to pencil.Your TIC agreement should do two things well: prevent deadlock and preserve co-owner independence.

The biggest thing that’s going to prevent you from scaling are the things you can’t control.

Implement a preventive maintenance schedule to catch issues early.

Best way into the business, is offer your services as a “broker” to an established player.  

Again. from we told you (and everyone else who went to the back of the room to get their totebag of cd's, booklets and the dollar tree quality mp4 player and paid $2000.00 just to get in before the upsells start) so.

I need to resolve this account issue ASAP to prevent that kind of fraud!