The City I invest in has a somewhat outdated rule that states an emergency contact must reside within 60 miles of the residence. 

You'll likely also reduce your cost of living by moving to a stabilized apartment.Depending on the cashflow and debt paydown, you can use this strategy until you've built enough equity to reinvest.On the other hand, getting into a multi-family after refinancing will also help you build substantial equity to rinse and repeat in the coming years.

Generally, ditching a PM and starting anew is just building in weeks more delays, and the answer is to tweak what you have. 

Buy a lot and build a house for sale in 2026.

I pay for internet for the whole building but I'll split the charge between units and charge each tenant double my cost. 

Please feel free to reach out to me and my team if you would like to come up with a game plan and build your buy box. 

Rule of thumb: I've been told "Never fall in love with a property".

My best piece of advice is find the most nit picky building inspector you can.

I had to live in the property due to the FHA occupancy rules, so I had about an hour and 15 minute commute to work every day.I settled on Tilton (small town in central NH) because the property was right and it cash flowed very well, and was quite cheap (at the time... 240k), I could get the loan to get into the building and own 4 units.

The building has some deferred maintenance that I have been dealing with.