Our last phase is to get the financing in order which we are working on now and hope to have that underway if not completed soon.I know that isn't much help, but ultimately a good property management agency is going to be both a teacher as well as a manager in the initial stages of your engagement.  

Haha I will have to go back to my high school math teachers and tell them that I don't think compound interest is dumb anymore. 

Pulling all the good sub2 stuff together into one place like that would enable all of those tough searches to be simplified into "just hit that sweet page with everything good".

Are there not laws in Ohio that protect a landlord and enable him/her to enforce rental leases?

I'm hoping that by registering as a finance company it will also enable me to register as a loan originator, but I have a lot of research to do!

Lower payments increase cashflow and enable you to invest more (in RE, equities, etc). 

This might mean sharing profits, but it can also enable you to scale faster.- Consider Short-Term Rentals: Since you're in upstate NY, short-term vacation rentals could be lucrative, especially if you can manage them efficiently.

Technology has enabled communication with a remote CPA through phone calls, emails, skype etc.

I work full time as a teacher and I travel, so I'm going through a property management to get it rented out. 

There are online services that enable you to search for more detailed contact information, but those cost money and are usually designed to create mailing lists for a large number of properties that meet your search criteria.