If the expenses occurred after the placed in service date, then they are deductible. 

I was in the process of about to get into the real estate world of investing until this occurred.

When the whole covid shutdown occurred, I dropped out of college to help my father's service business maintaining and remodeling residential and commercial buildings.

The most concerning is that they allowed unsupervised showings on a vacant unit- something we were not aware of until serious theft had occurred.

I am asking anyone knowledgeable to provide any measures or strategies that could materially make a difference in heading off the risk of serious financial harm of the eviction process with non-paying tenants.

This type of transaction occurs frequently.

One bad situation can harm all the properties.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

We're often helping each other problem solve our listings or helping with specific situations that are occurring at our properties.

Details matter: keep a log (something like an excel spreadsheet) that documents the date, duration, and events that occurred/work you did. 2.