Good call on the Pro account :) That's great you got a property in San Antonio.

I live in San Diego. 

I like to hear about experiences in renting out a whole house as a vacation rental in San Jose.  

Hi John, I posted my place in a few San Antonio FB groups.

I even had a loan officer with a very large VA lender in San Antonio tell that to one of my Austin clients earlier this year.

Interested in investing in MFR's out of state (market here in San jose is crazy high!)

A bit about myself, I'm currently active duty Navy stationed in San Diego, my wife who was also Navy just recently got out of the service & I think now is the best time to try to purchase our first property we are looking here in San Diego and some areas in Arizona.

Nyc, Florida beach area, San Diego...or another spell in Boston.

Just relocated to San Antonio and want to learn more about the market.

If you perform the repair personally, you have to be reasonable in charging fair market rate. eg. if it takes 1 hr of your labor for some handyman's work, $20-30/hr is reasonable, even you're probably paid much more in your own line of work.My suggestion is to first fire the PM who obviously wanted to skim some profit by inflating the repair cost while exposing you to lawsuits (remember you're in CA - a blue state and San Jose - a city with rent control).