It has good integration, is cost effective, and the direct booking feature is pretty good!

He owns an asset that is worth (low-end) $300k that generates 2300/month (after all costs).

They will have additional costs for mailing & online campaigns to get leads.

If you don't you are likely costing yourself bookings.

If your property management company is good and has built an internal maintenance team which has set rates and had strong relationship relationships with licensed contractor which should keep costs in control, you should never need to shop contractors on your own I wouldn't think.So in short, our policy is give us your preferred contractors upfront if you have them, but then we work all tickets to resolution including dispatch, and payment of invoices.This is of course for operational expenses.  

I hate to go that direction, but their negligence has cost us thousands.

I want to know is it more cost effective or easier to purchase the property alone and put it in a mortgage in our name or purchase the LLC from him that holds the property within it.

I have a confession: my only duplex, which I gave owned now for 2 years and recently moved out of from a house hack, has proven to cost me more to maintain/pay taxes/repair/fix etc to the point where my cash flow is close to zero.

The type of the neighborhoods where his properties were located didn't fit in with my plan but he did well and the purchase costs were low.

The rates are high right now but these loans are limited based on cashflow so you cant take a loan that costs more than you're receiving in rental income.