HOWEVER, in most states, you can not have a friend or family member manage property for you UNLESS they hold a brokers license or work under the supervision of one.As the number of addresses (or doors) goes up, management take more and more time an then there's the issue of using an onsite manager (also state regulated). 

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I do agree with @Danery Amador in that you have to balance your construction experience (to supervise a handyman's work) and time available with the cost and convenience of a licensed contractor.

Be wary of using property management companies, they need to be somewhat supervised to make sure they are doing their jobs and that really just means dropping by your property ever now and then. 

Full Authority means the PR can sell the property without court supervision (no probate auction).Limited Authority means the court must supervise all the actions of the PR.

Be there to supervise.

Tenant’s guest will be considered an additional occupant if they are eighteen years of age or older and any of the following occur: Guest spends more than three nights a week on average over a one month period at the Premises, Guest is on the Premises without Tenant supervision for more than four hours during 4 consecutive or nonconsecutive days during any week, Guest is given a key to any door of entry on the Premises.

Working on the business side of healthcare helped me learned valuable skills like time management, negotiation, employee supervision, working with vendors, financial analysis,...all things that carry over to both my investing and agent business.

The out of area companies did want me to come into the office due to our state two year supervision laws, but this may vary by company.

By doing lots of research, networking, talking to them in person and also talking to their previous clients for a performance review; planning and assigning the construction work, swinging by the house every day to make sure progress in being made as scheduled and basically supervising the entire project from the very first step through the end.This way investors will not worry about any “nails popping out of sheetrock” because the nails will not be done by me as every specific task of the work will be done by a professional with experience in that field and then from a bigger view the whole project is being supervised properly.To better summarize it, what I bring to table is: My search skills, analysis, delegating tasks, bringing in funds, supervising and management