Either way, if you use a VA you need to have them in your systems so you can monitor their actual calls.

Provide an added upsell to your properties, with monitored security camera's at the front, back, and garage doors.  

If I do end up using a 3rd part for PM, you better believe I'm going to be VERY active in monitoring what is going on, and how I'm being billed.

We don't live there, so it hard to monitor the request.We also would like to have him clean his common area.

If you did it yourself, you'd have to pay for the gas and if you hired a snow removal service their fee would have the gas used included... so the other options would have you paying for it as well.If you do pay for it, just monitor it to make sure the gas isn't being used up "mysteriously" fast.

We are looking to get a better macro level view on our portfolio/ business, to keep a better monitor on the pulse of the business as a whole, and individual assets.  

No one doing the SDIRA lending thing has time/money for a full time compliance expert on "staff" for their individual one-off retirement plan to monitor the payments on three mortgages...

I constantly had to monitor the progress because the property manager would not communicate with the contractor for status updates.

I would recommend a credit monitoring subscription so you can check your report and look for any other errors, and then immediately see when items are corrected.

I don't have experience, but I monitor this market a lot. t's extremely hard to find any piece a real estate near those campuses that actually works out financially.