@Stephen Branagan Recommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

Also i think it may be size of property. my experience and discussions, VRBO tends to be older members looking for larger properties.

At that ARV I would ask your agent how many days on market to expect or which lender people tend to use. 

I know most PMs already have go-to contractors for most things but I also know from experience that good contractors tend to get busy or scale to a point where quality suffers.For the professional property managers of the world, how often do you get solicited by new vendors and what can a new one do to convince you to give them a chance?

I live 10 minutes or so from Fair Park in East Dallas so tend to invest in my immediate area (which is already an expensive area) but can see the edges of old East Dallas and the Fair Park/Expo park area blurring. 

If you can take out lines of credit on other properties you own, I prefer that to going the hard money/private lender route, because it tends to be significantly cheaper.

While we have good facilities management, I cannot say my cleaner is the absolute best and is head and shoulders above the rest.People tend to hire us who are too busy to talk to guests, do the pricing, etc. 

I will add that the rental prices of condos tend to be more similar to multi-family housing than SFH and in the greater Phoenix MSA a lot of new multi-family units have been built in the past couple years with more on the way, so rents have softened.

I and many other investors tend to underestimate rehab expenses so it's a great idea to build in some cushion. 

It could help for word of mouth referrals by other tenants.