Excellent info!

Excellent customer service.

Hospitable, hands down, is an excellent PMS.

Then plan and design how you're going to deploy that cash via what strategy your wife and you have confidence in.I use a excel or google doc and my first sheet would layout all of the details of the sale including all costs that go into getting closed.

A couple of years ago there was an excellent long article on BP about all the things to look for and ask when interviewing property managers. 

I am 21 with excellent credit and have enough/will have enough for the high down payment they require.

Fast forward 20 years: I now have money in the bank, excellent credit, live modestly on my own, and run a business that’s doing well.Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to save much for retirement during most of my life.

I may have to Teak my strategy in light of the excellent advice you provide here, Henry.  

It’s also an excellent opportunity to gain property management experience.

No but you could create an excel macro to do multiple properties at once - also the numbers that someone provides to me I take with a grain of salt anyways.