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Especially after capex, vacancy, management fees, etc etc. 

I has two GREAT property managers that immediately come to mind, one handling 5 high end high rise condos I owned in Phoenix and the other one handling a 12 unit very lower end apartment building I owned in Arlington, Texas.  

I manage hundreds of rentals and have had thousands of tenants, but I've never been sued once.

Investment Info:Office Space commercial investment investment. 100's of completed projects, JC Beal Construction is nearly 100 years in business, Beal Properties manages well over 2000 doors all throughout Michigan and the Toledo, OH area.

Do you recommend making relationship with property management companies?

While I have managers handling the daily operations, I still oversee everything remotely.

I manage around 400 rentals and probably terminate a couple dozen every year for lease violations.

Do they use pen and paper to record this information or do they have some sort of software to manage it?