Despite having delivered over 480 investment properties, we always seek the opinion of a property manager for each property before considering it.This deep dive is very impressive.

I've talked to a few agents in Memphis, and the impression is that vacancies are up, rents are down, but prices ARE NOT trending down? 

To avoid going through the same poor experience, keep reading.Even if someone gives you a referral here, do NOT make the mistake of assuming that the PMC will meet your expectations, just because they met the expectations of the referral source.In our experience, the #1 mistake owners make when selecting a Property Management Company (PMC) is ASSUMING instead of CONFIRMING.It's often a case of not doing enough research, as they don't know what they don't know!

. :-)I can answer a couple select questions that I know for sure about.Do you have to create a business?

Vehicle storage can't compete profitably when compared to Self Storage, "generally" speaking.On the sparefoot page on the left side you can select covered, open, enclosed, etc. 

To avoid going through the same poor experience, keep reading.Even if someone gives you a referral here, do NOT make the mistake of assuming that the PMC will meet your expectations, just because they met the expectations of the referral source.In our experience, the #1 mistake owners make when selecting a Property Management Company (PMC) is ASSUMING instead of CONFIRMING.It's often a case of not doing enough research, as they don't know what they don't know!

One of the requirements is to have a trustee. selecting a friend/family isn’t an option for me.

Fortunately, our software provider continues to improve their product and allow owners to select alerts they want and don't want.Next, we've asked our software provider to add a feature that would allow our owner clients to select from: Immediate Alerts, Daily Alert Summary, Weekly Summary, Monthly Summary.Of course, we call owners when there's a critical issue.

You select every investment Spark creates.

Many times, one of them doesn't work or works part time or simply doesn't have the income and credit qualifications that meet your selection criteria, but the other spouse or person does as the "primary income provider".