Should/Can I hire a property management company before closing?

[Demetrius Potts]

Hello, I will be purchasing my first investment property within the next 3 months.  The property will be out of my state.  I’m looking into property managers in the area and want to hire them and have paperwork completed before closing on the home.  To put it simply, I want to purchase the property, hand the keys off to the property management company and let them go to work from there.  How do I explain this to property management companies, because it feels like they don’t understand what I’m asking or expect me to just have a property already.