The poor communication on the backside is normal.  

About a year ago I stayed in Saint Thomas at a short term rental and the property had a two car garage and an apartment below it that the “care taker” lived in.

I've helped my sellers find rentals in between homes or help clients' kids find a rental, so I've dealt with MLS rentals, but I don't normally handle them. 

It wouldn't make sense that you lose rights that you would normally have managing a property yourself, just because you hired a property manager. 

I recently hit a buffet far away from our normal one down the street, and there were two guys in T-shirts and jeans in there talking at the top of their voices about how they were "$125K into this deal" and were working on "getting $50K out of this flip."

Now, not so much unless you are buying at deep discount and are getting materials and labor much cheaper than normal.

Meanwhile the alternative lenders and even banks who do finance mix-use real estate normally require lower leverage than single family or multi-family real estate.

We would use it 1 week a year (like we do now) so the 3K we'd normally pay would be used by the condo and the occasional get away during off-season.

Having to go back and forth to the property 5 or 6 times for things that could have been handled at the same time is rather annoying and that's not counting the fact the realtors have other appointments to get too or could have worked on other deals while the lender did what they were normally supposed to do etc.In my case I had an ideal deal that fit even their own requirement's, hence why I wanted to go with it.

Sell 8 houses a month or go down the road just like cars.