Shop around because the prices fluctuate between sites.

You ensure your rental property, house flip, or rehab helps increase wealth and builds a successful real estate investment portfolio.This post originally appeared on the BiggerPockets blog.

We are still using all the pieces we bought from those sites to this day.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

If the answer is the latter, is it possible I would lose the money I think I would save by missing deals while trying to learn and upgrade my site myself? 

I've spent quite a bit of time experimenting with a couple of these sites lately.

Take a look at BP's blog where new articles are published every day: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog4.

Another thing I've done is to go onto STR sites, and check out a couple things.

Web sites that have been making recommendations for years suddenly claim it is AI.

I've heard of mentees who started cleaning up construction areas on a flip at the end of each work day or picking up supplies at Home Depot and delivering them to the job site.