Also, $50k revenue on a half million purchase is nothing to get excited about

And for a period of time, they were right:  The financial crisis and Great Recession followed, and the market value of that property dropped almost in half on 5 years. 

Chris,I have 2 brownstones and found the easiest and cheapest solution as follows:Smart lock (I recommend Schlage) with each tenant receiving app access and code.

I'm not going to repeat the "whys" of my kind response to your initial post... those can be found in some of my other comments, but anyone with half a brain can look at my comment in response to your initial one, and find nothing but love and kindness in it. 

Local PM also charges a first/ half months rent which I beleive Hemlane do not charge ? 

The borrower is sound and has 10 properties in his portfolio with half of them with decent equity.

It's unfortunate you took my advice as an attack on you or a defense of PMC's in general.There are a LOT of bad PMC's and I have no problem calling them out.But, I also have no problem holding owners responsible for their poor hiring decisions.We've only heard your side of the story and I've learned many hard lessons from jumping to conclusions with only half the story.Best of luck to you:)

(this would cover my half of the rentals mortgage)-Move and use my equity to pay 100% of the rental mortgage and use the rest towards my personal house?

Trust none of what you hear and only half of what you see. 

The easiest time to find good deals is when everyone is afraid of the market, similar to now.