Your job, your savings, sounds like you have a supportive dad, you live in a place you evidently love, you’ve had exposure to the business.

Any business could do this with their services and the savings would certainly justify the additional effort.But if you take advantage of the new law, wouldn't the renter do the same?

It seems that often when companies acquire large books of business in one shot there are growing pains and unfortunately those are felt at the client level.

And personal downsizing is always good for business!

As a result I must Study the market and know what i’m worth. 

That’s how the wealthy do it with real estate or businesses.

I checked the Better Business Bureau for complaints, I checked the NJ State Attorney General consumer division to ensure he was licensed, I checked every reference he gave by visiting sites and speaking with the homeowners. 

They take good care of the properties, but there's not enough attention given to pricing strategy and they spend money like nobody's business (not a problem when they were spending their own money on the master lease model, but a BIG problem when they were suddenly spending OUR money as the PM).

This will set up your buy and hold business long term. 

Try and join a few local Facebook pages and connect with locals who are in the house hacking business.