When I used to be a tenant, my landlord had it in the lease that at the end of the lease for move out, the tenant has to hire a professional to clean the gutter, clean the fireplace, clean the carpet, etc.

But the right home or group of homes can enable you to hire managers and staff to run things FOR you.

Simple things like this are why you hire a realtor.

I would have hired a junk haul person to do the clean out instead of my contractor.

When I started, I hired an attorney to handle my evictions.

Hire a contractor to repair.

I hired roichamps dot com to do cold calling for me.

I've leased out SFR but not commercial and plan to hire a broker to assist as well. 

W-2, 1099, etc.) with passive income/loss from rentals is to meet the IRS requirements for Real Estate Professional Status or REPS (this also requires material participation in addition to specific requirements to be considered a REPS).Once you have clarity on whether or not you can offset non-passive income with rental losses you can then explore cost seg to accelerate depreciation (and some of the accelerated depreciation from cost seg will impact year 1)...

How have you found quality contractors that you continue to hire?