A person who has spent his 2000 to 4000 minimum CPA practice hours doing foreign currency conversions at Deloitte for a Belgian energy company may not know the first thing about real estate or anything else.

Go search the topic "Lifestyle Asset University" here on Bigger Pockets and you will see a longer thread with a lot of opinions (most are not members) but still worth a read as there are a half a dozen paid members from our group who have commented on that thread.We were formerly called Lifestyle Asset University, but I didn't realize that you couldn't use the word University in your company name here in Utah so we changed our name to Vodyssey. 

Would you like to manage the property yourself, have an assistant do it for you, or have a management company do it for you?

Also a good pm company will provide a P&L every month.

In this option your agent would either get paid from you directly in your closing costs OR from the seller via seller concessions.like Russell said, if you are comfortable with the transaction and understand what you are signing and you don't need things explained and you have connections with inspections and title companies then go for it.

I work for Evernest, a full-service PM company, here in Birmingham. 

(owns a CRM company)Wholesaler in Akron - "What types of homes do you usually look for when you are looking off-market in Akron?"

I'm located north of Houston, Owned a Real Estate Mortgage company years ago.....

This is when you hire a staging professional or staging company to come in, make recommendations, and do the work for you.

Hiring a contractor to assist with repairs and a property management company to manage rental.