My advice for anyone looking to hire a PM company is: Review the contract very carefully!

Hire an attorney, take notes, and maybe you'll be prepared to handle it next time.

As others have said, you can do the digging yourself with the municipality or hire an Architect to do this due diligence and provide a zoning and property analysis report bringing all the info together for you.

It's worth hiring someone for. 

I see almost no downsides here pending the condition and then still probably not, other than just learning how to manage or hiring that out.

Network (Virtually and more importantly in person)3.

This is not the place to cheap out over a few hundred dollars.Lots of lenders and virtually all borrowers never read their loan documents.

What would your STR numbers look like if you hired a local STR PMC?

Since then she’s hired a lawyer because she felt that it’s unfair that shes only getting 30 days notice. she supposed to move out on the 26th of November she wants him to use the security deposit as last month rent but my friend runs the risk of the place being trashed if he does accept this will he still be able to fight for more money if the place does end up trashed and is there anything he can do to fight her to get the last months rent 

.: I've never hired an EA or CPA before and need advice on vetting them to avoid being taken advantage of.