When you do this long enough, you get an idea of what a tester asks about or they start digging.  

If you just hire the cheapest or first PMC you speak with and it turns into a bad experience, please don’t assume ALL PMC’s are bad and start trashing PMC’s in general.

The BiggerPockets meetup section and Meetup.com can be great places to start!

It depends on your financial strength, the quality of the property, how many properties you own, etc.I like to start with one significant expense and three months of vacancy.

Hello @Camille Romero congrats on getting started on your real estate journey. 

Great start on investing!

I am considering getting into this space (looking at some courses), but worried that its too late, and that deep local market knowledge/understanding of buyers/connection with developers etc is required to make this work, which only incumbent/long term investors will have and would be hard for a new entrant starting from scratch to catch-up...is my hypothesis valid in your opinion ?

I started listing the homes one by one as they became vacant, and we were doing okay with getting them sold - in 2012, that was no small task.Jeff called me one day and asked me for CMAs on the next few properties that would be coming up.

She has some stock (maybe 50k), some retirement IRA of around 100k which I believe she has started to take and then maybe 20k in her savings account.

When you start to get into larger properties, it can begin to make sense.