Interested in knowing if you get calls about remote not working, breaking, or lost.

Because if they are they and break you have to replace.

UP-SIDE: If you pay $900 to evict and they move tomorrow, than you can start collecting rent on a new GOOD tenant that much sooner so it is not money wasted, you can still break even.DOWN-SIDE, you do nothing and they don't pay, then you still have to evict and then you loose another month or two of rent.

I am going there for spring break and would like to potentially look at some properties.

You need to have the income from the property after expenses have sufficient income to cover escrow payment and expenses to break even or to cash flow a little bit. 

So if it's a break-even scenario, why hire a PM? 

Im a big fan of putting more money down in this current market so that a property at least breaks even.

Another reason to only do it when you have nothing to lose if they sue you for breaking your lease. 

I imagine sometimes people do not steal items (though sometimes they probably do), they likely break them and then they throw them out as to not be charged for them.

At 85% this is a break-even deal at best and nothing anyone should be considering.