The design of the mechanicals, the age, the tenant demographic are all going to impact how often you have to fix something, and how much it'll cost.If you are going to take this sport seriously, you need to become a student of the game.

A good alternative could be to have a VA scrape the internet for leads for you, and put them into an organized form for your review.

Our organizer (me) and current members want the project as leveraged as possible and we are only considering recourse debt.

@Andrew Greer also organizes meet ups that are typically near the downtown neighborhoods that would be good to check out as well.Good luck with your investing.Luke

@Sherry Patterson organizes a meet up in Colleyville for a lot of people from BP.

Find someone at the meeting who is doing the same type of investing you are interested in and offer to help them for free with whatever they may need for their business (marketing, organizing, painting their flip, etc) in exchanged for their mentorship.

You can also search meetup.com which is where I organized mine.

If they would like to be a manager then they have to work their way up with your organization or go elsewhere where there might be an immediate opportunity.My employee knows I welcome suggestions BUT I am the owner of the business and call the shots.

Learn how, if you do not allready know, to be better organized.  

They want to see that this is a business and that you are organized.