@Paul DentingerRecommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

Brown RentRedi tries to enhance the DIY management options.It is NOT a replacement for a PMC.Recommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

Quote from @Wai Chan: You've made a terrible mistake of allowing the tenant to violate the lease with unauthorized occupants and pets.

I've saved my clients thousands and huge mistakes that the builder would have made them eat. 

Another common mistake is to estimate the complexity of the work by the number of pages.

Hi Tyree, I’ve been doing the same: reading book after book trying to learn as much as possible hoping to avoid mistakes.

Not doing this is the mistake people often make and puts them underwater.

Now those same props are selling for 110- 160k.MASSIVE mistake not keeping 50 or so more of the ones I flipped, SO DUMB!!  

You can hear real-world examples of how others have built their investment portfolio and (hopefully) learn to avoid their mistakes.4.

I've decided to put the excess in a savings account just in case the city realizes the mistake and wants the money back.