Their job is similar to a site superintendent - they oversee work by people they know and jump in when needed to finish things. 

We have a decent amount of HQ overhead (operations manager, transaction coordinators, admin assistants, office rent, travel expenses, etc), plus each market/field has another $20k or so of monthly overhead -- sales, project manager, superintendent, admin, office costs, etc.The three options we have come up with are:1. each employee keeps time on the amount of time spent on each house and we bill this to each house, like a law firm would work (this is hard and time consuming)2. we pass through all of the overhead to the fund directly, like the fund is investing in a company. 

Here's a list of expenses:Accounting Advertising Insurance (fire and liability) Janitorial Service Lawn/Snow Legal Licenses Miscellaneous Property Management Repairs and Maintenance Resident Superintendent Supplies Trash Removal- Taxes - Real Estate Personal Property Payroll Other - Utilities - Electricity Fuel Oil Gas Sewer and Water TelephoneThanks in advance!

I do run several jobs at a time, but when I do, I put a foreman/lead/superintendent at site all the time and monitor them twice a day.

Property taxes are high in Shaker... but they maintain the city very well.... and its a decent to good school system... and the School system just got a new Superintendent and new principal at the High school ... so well see how things workout!

I work in education as an Assistant Superintendent in Northern Illinois.

I currently work for a home builder as an assistant superintendent, so I'm investing part time currently.

When architects change the drawings and I don't have time to get pricing from my sub I have my superintendent sign daily slips that track the time and material. 

There are several types of GCs, perhaps he is not the right PM for you. 1st form of GC 1 person with a contractors license plus 1-2 guys (couldn't really finish the job on time and on budget, tends to give you a low price but during the work, you get yelled at because it's not their fault that this or that happened), 2nd form 1 licensed person 5 workers + specialty subs (could finish on time, tends to give you a low bid but every nut and bold will be a change order), 3rd form 1 licensed + 2-3 supers + all subs (decent overhead, on time and on budget, they wouldn't issue a change order if it's something below $1,000), 4th form 1 corporate license + several project managers + several superintendents + a lot of supervisors (design and build contractors or above).

Our skill set will differ from that required to run a rooming house whose clientele are employees of a local institution (i.e. hospital) or industry (i.e. auto plant) which is again different from a rooming house whose clientele are the working poor or on the verge of society.One thing that, we believe, is key in the operation of a rooming house is to have a live-in "Den Mother" / superintendent whom you trust.