Additionally, these investors can provide warnings about potential red flags, ensuring you hire reliable contractors and property managers.

Many are jacks of all trades and will charge you to learn to do what you hired them for.

I don't have a judgementDo you have to hire a lawyer if the tenant has already Vacated? 

However you are not getting REPS because of STR.

This includes hiring an inspector to check for structural problems, arranging for a pest inspection, and getting a professional appraisal to ensure the property's value matches the bank's asking price.

Lower the boom on appraisers who write low ball appraisals because they are afraid the banks will not hire them again unless they write low appraisals...

Loosening some of that up or at least streamlining the process and hiring more people in those departments so that it doesn't take a year to get a building permit would be better than wasting time trying to convert unbuildable federal land into new housing developments.

Also, would you suggest using professional firms to do the hiring process or should I do on my own to save money?

@Don KonipolI view these trends as both things that people are participating in AND things that are being done to them.Silicon Valley hires the best and brightest to make phones, social media, games and apps addictive. 

I'd like to understand them enough to at least be able to hire someone to help me.