Possibly a second bathroom in the future, but not sure if that would be worth it.

If you expect to refinance in the near future, I would take this into consideration.

Thinking of trying to LTR it until I have my feet wet, then begin STR during some future turnover. 

I do understand the advantage of having a PMC to run the property but we need to focus on what I have and need to do on the current scenario and not future.

Think they have a bright future and really like them now.

GL in all your future REI ventures.

I fully intend to continue utilizing their services in the future.

I am wanting to start real estate investing to become financially free in the future.

I can refinance when rates drop in the future. 

However in the future because  of how these things tend to go, I would not have called insurance or a remediation company, I would have just fixed it immediately before it got too bad then warned the tenant not to do it again (and to be fair to them it’s odd that simply hanging a picture would cause a major plumbing leak, the likelihood of that happening is so low) and moved on.