These two contractors may not like that area, or just had one bad experience, so it would be great if you could explore more of what other experiences people had/have in the city. 

I haven't heard of any, but met with a few people in the twin cities last year.

Now here is some advice many will disagree with me on but I firmly committed to this:  Most people that use a VA loan shouldn't.  

Some people like Yardi and some like the next one. 

Typically these people are really forthcoming with info and can tell you.

The problem with that is it'll be harder for the residents and the vendors to use the rentvine features as fewer people want to log in to a website from a smartphone.Also, it requires a lot of clicks/scrolling/opening new pages/tabs to get to where you want. 

But then again I’m not too good at people management.  

I understand different people have different risk profiles.

Most people have the last 30 months. 

I haven't dug into the actual agreement, but was curious because I'm not in a position to house hack, but see many people on here recommend the strategy.