New companies like Intel, Amazon, and Google are also investing here.

Would you want to move right in the beginning of a school year? 

HUD performed extensive due diligence on us, and had to approve us as buyer's and our management company and mangers.

They are billed as "a scientific approach to single-family rentals" and use "institutional grade property management," which usually means they are a tech company in real estate and likely either don't have the existing property management relationships in each area or you chose an area where they don't have enough units through Roofstock for the PM they chose to care.

When your interviewing companies I'd suggest to ask about maintenance, and even talk with leasing agent as well. 

The other quesiton i have is if private equity is starting to get involved in this market, companies like Apollo & Carlyle, does that change your feelings about getting involved in the space?

@Kieran Collings - I'm an investor, flipper, and own and run a local property management company.  

I offered to buy the property from the $28B foreign company which kept them from having to tear down the buildings to mitigate the vagrant problem and also from their obligation to pay the rail road for the long term lease.

I see a lot of 1 star reviews in your futureYou don't need a plumber, just get the PM company to send a maintenance guy.

I'm also relatively young and interested in some more "challenging" investments (although recognizing that I would have to do everything remotely and source through a property management company like yours).