Your credit can be destroyed, it will prevent you from working any job in the financial industry, can cause you to lose your job if good credit is a requirement and maybe worst of all, it will hinder you from buying additional properties.

Once you find one you can trust you can surely relax a bit as them having to get your approval for a small fix can hinder them.

Your PM is not on your side, and is actively hindering your business - to say the least.First fire the PM, take over your own property, and then evict. 

I never, ever require a tenant to be there unless there's animals present, I would prefer they not be there as they can usually do a good job of hindering the repairs going on.Most repair guys will do work after hours if you pay them more, which is a very real possibility with you working a full time job and needing to develop a relationship with them to do the repairs right. 

It will become a major hinderance to you in terms of financing due to what is probably ~100K+ in college debt (effectively a mortgage)

Being a condo, access to gas is going to be tough, so I would probably tear it out completely and install a electric linear fireplace instead if I decide it's going to hinder the sale.The strata council is very proactive and takes good care of the building.

Unless you expect your income to rise exponentially in the forthcoming years, maxing out on a single family could hinder your ability to partake in REI down the line whereas a multifamily may actually strengthen your borrowing ability and allow you to scale your business if purchased correctly. 

@Nathan Waters:While I could just go and buy some cheap land (clear it, pave some roads, and set up shop) location has really hindered my search.

With the housing crisis in Los Angeles, I think the risk of hindering regulations is high. 

Do you think having these skills will hinder you from scaling hirer than a certain number of properties.Or do you feel that once you reach that “number” it will be easy to transition from doing it yourself to hiring it out?