I sometimes remember the time in my car on the way to Houston when I learned of my mom, and you were there and I'm glad  you were.  

We also discussed, in front of a mutual friend, that I normally get $1500 out of the house.

Hi Nina.If I were not experienced in land lording and property manager, I would look personally to the extent you want to learn or experience property management versus hiring someone else that you trust to do the job.Yes, the cost for a property manager is important but not essential- the cost between property managers are not double or triple the cost of others (say like attorneys in some areas of law or cars). 

. # of fees looks standard but the % are slightly higher than what I have seen in the past (1-3% being normal).

I agree with the local experts, it's not usually a big deal, but I've seen some pretty high estimates, but normally they're $500-2k jobs at most and they shouldn't hold up the deal, like James said, but the buyer will have to assume the violations if the seller is not fixing them before hand.

It took 90 days to access some of the money, but his credit was messed up and he almost lost the rentals as well as almost lost his home and his cars Due to not being able to make the monthly payments as well as make the insurance payments required by the loans.

I particularly purchased SF that has 3 building and I can fit in 10-15 cars inside. 

If you do decide to list it as an MTR, furnishedfinder is a solid platform to use in addition to the normal OTA's

We are in a reverse frog boil environment  - Instead of boiling to death slowly they raised IR so fast that people are unsure/unclear when it's a good time to come back in - they will more than likely lower rates 1/8 to 1/4 point at a time, incredibly slow to allow the market drip back to normal preventing a surgeI'm also seeing people drop $5,600,000 in cash to $13,000,000 in cash like it's nothingCash rules down in florida even on 889K deals 

My $0.02. 2 - Not sure whether that's in the lease that a tenant is responsible for paying rent until a new tenant is found but that may be normal in your market, not mine.