I believe the hard money lender would need to get permission from the owner of the land to place a first-position lien.

Many of them only attract unreasonably CHEAP owners who will immediately fire you if they find someone else cheaper or you won't capitulate to their cost-cutting demands.

Owners hate that PMCs charge them - for anything!

WORST property management in the Kansas City area - property owners stay away and find any other company.

If they are two parcels, you could buy the tenant occupied side with owner financing and the vacant side with FHA?

I plan to owner occ it and do a mix of STR/LTR /live there.

But that is my back pocket plan B.Trying to come up with some sort of bridge strategy to then domino the owner occupied refi route first.Plan C is being the opportunity to potential investors, which I have a lot of interested people but ideally want to do this solo.

Breaking out into silos where the owner deals with multiple SMEs vs a single point of contact. 

@Stacey OlsonRecommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

(Track each property or owner as a class/location, automate owner payouts, sync reimbursements, and keep Amazon/VRBO expenses tied to the right property.)