After 8 years, I would have expected many of those items to have failed.5.

If you fail to follow the rules, you may open your personal assets to a lawsuit.

Normally, house hacking is a much smarter option because DIY renovations fail every single time.

It never fails that their name is truncated, they have no photo, and their profile is barren as well.

Just speaking from experience after close to a decade in the Rio Grande valley.Wow, looks like talk to text failed me once again... 

Quote from @Jason Leigh: Here's what I would do.Write a very short, professional letter to the property manager explaining that they failed to communicate with you about anything, particularly the "services and maintenance" that was never communicated to you or approved by you.

We had a list of preferred real estate agents we listed our stuff with to get fair market (maximum) sales price.If we wanted to dump a property below market value, we knew who the players were and would contact them discreetly - we didn't want any negative publicity.Unless you find a desperate, failing lender, don't see you having much success.

Too many times new investors are focused on their most immediate needs and fail to take into consideration how certain relationships can help them in the future.

My current property manager has failed us in so many ways over the past couple of years that it's time to move on:1.

I don't want to deal with property managers, let alone tenants who will get on my nerves by failing to pay rent or demanding a new stove, refrigerator, window, HVAC and etc., and breaking the drywall and kitchen cabinets with sledgehammer if I evict them for non-payment of the rent.