Most owners don't screen their property managers and hire someone they already know (e.g. their sales agent) or someone they find online with cheap fees or a slick sales pitch.I offer referrals along with three promises:1.

Most just throw you on some giant mailer list and send you anything from pure sh!

I just throw 5 random people in a house and hope they don’t kill each other.

The hardest part of doing things remotely (after learninghow to spot deals) is finding a trustworthyGC that is cheap and quick (ask their ETA when they bid).Good luck!

Why do you say that any deal can work if you buy it cheap enough.

When there is a recently acquired long-term rental, lenders can simply throw in the lease agreement and use 75% of the rental income from that, but on a short-term rental, there is no lease agreement, so the only way to document what the actual cash flow is, is by using Schedule E of your most recent tax return filing. 

I'm just throwing this out there to see if there is a need.

There are critical items such as -Plumbing, HVAC, electrical items, roof repairs, appliance repairs- that you want extremely competent professionals to handle to ensure that you the PM and owner avoid liability and to ensure you aren't shelling money out again for the same issue because you were being cheap the first time.  

I’m just throwing this out there to see if there is a need.

Throwing nearly a half million on the line right off the bat can get squirrely quickly.