You also must consider your understanding of the intricacies of managing a property yourself and whether you have the skills to manage a manager.Do you know anything about property maintenance, are you at all experienced or handy with tools. do you understand the functions of the different buildings trades, do you know the costs associated with the trades.If you have not been hands on involved in managing your own property it is extremely difficult to manage a property manager.

Next, I would seek out your local real estate investment associations (Reia).  

The high closing costs at purchase was due to $8k that was due to the homeowners association.

The Knoxville Real Estate Investors Association - KnoxREIA.com - will begin advertising Turnkey properties from its members in September and there will be a Deal Table beginning with the Sept 13 meeting.

The 3% the agent made the buy side cost you nothing of course, and she does have some work/liability associated with that.  

I knew my name would be associated with the house for years to come, and I refuse to settle for anything less than quality even if it meant redoing things that I didn't find acceptable. 

They are way overpriced, the classes don’t give you enough information and they try to upsell you a coaching program to counterbalance the incomplete course.I know this because when we started I maxed out two credit cards to take one of those $11,000 courses.Later, at my local Real Estate Investor Association, I learned a good course should only run around $500.

though the provincial property owner's association; are they still conducting their CAM training via NSCC?

I rent it for $1750 and mortgage/insurance/taxes/association are $1100.

Most of the board members had been there a long time and were very familiar with the financial status of the Association and of the co-owners who lived there.