It's also where someone with some experience can assert his experience into the situation, despite the greener third party conduit. 

The process of following up can also entail being patient, especially at first as you begin to build good solid relationships.Staying politely persistent with your follow up will eventually help you in building momentum. 

This entails you taking out an FHA loan to buy a multi-family (2-4 units).

My major concern right now is that eviction would entail re-renting at a reduced rate since Alaska is in a bit of a recession, renovation costs right now, and renting during the winter is an issue.

Look at the fact that almost half of all people moving to Nashville are coming from LA, NYC and Chicago, and you can see that our prices are still very attractive comparatively.I know everyone ever has said "this time is different" right before it all blows up, and I'm not saying that Nashville prices will not have dips and stalls over the coming years, but to have a greater than 5% decrease in real estate prices in the next 5 years would entail all immigration to stop and some kind of severe national pressure.

If so what kind of cost does this entail?

@Bablu Gupta, I have never developed land in California, but in Indiana the site approval would entail getting the property re-zoned for the type of building you'd like to build on it.

The manager needs to assert themselves and make the tenants acknowledge that they are to address any correspondence about the property to them and not you.The management especially wants to correct any mistakes you may have made last time by making the tenants aware that tardiness with rent will not be tolerated and will be swiftly dealt with legally.Any maintenance problem must be reported to the manager as soon as possible to prevent further damage.If they disagree with the manager they are free to leave so you can get a better tenant.

@Bryan Satter  @Jorge Ruiz  I also read a new blog post this week about buying in your name, transferring to a land trust (I'm not sure exactly what that entails), and then transferring into an LLC from the land trust... it apparently creates greater distance between the property and the owner, and I think may prevent some of the unecessary costs.https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/llc-lendi...

Learn To Persuade, Not Assert.