I could possibly think of a hybrid where the maintenance and emergency calls are handled by someone else and the remaining things a management company would normally do I could do myself. 

We also discussed, in front of a mutual friend, that I normally get $1500 out of the house.

The first rule of gambling is that no single loss can wipe you out.

. # of fees looks standard but the % are slightly higher than what I have seen in the past (1-3% being normal).

I agree with the local experts, it's not usually a big deal, but I've seen some pretty high estimates, but normally they're $500-2k jobs at most and they shouldn't hold up the deal, like James said, but the buyer will have to assume the violations if the seller is not fixing them before hand.

If you do decide to list it as an MTR, furnishedfinder is a solid platform to use in addition to the normal OTA's

We are in a reverse frog boil environment  - Instead of boiling to death slowly they raised IR so fast that people are unsure/unclear when it's a good time to come back in - they will more than likely lower rates 1/8 to 1/4 point at a time, incredibly slow to allow the market drip back to normal preventing a surgeI'm also seeing people drop $5,600,000 in cash to $13,000,000 in cash like it's nothingCash rules down in florida even on 889K deals 

My $0.02. 2 - Not sure whether that's in the lease that a tenant is responsible for paying rent until a new tenant is found but that may be normal in your market, not mine.

@Yaakov S. doubt these tenants have high credit scores, so you're probably dealing with Class C tenants with under 620 FICO scores.THIS IS NORMAL BEHAVIOR FOR THEM!

I imagine you had to evict the boyfriend through the normal MDJ process.