., and they have to go into a hotel temporarily.  

(all of this, listed top and bottom clearly...)Insurance Agent working to place a family temporarily.

Just to clarify, when you say your plumber have to be on your neighbor's yard by less than 2 feet, you are talking about them having to create a trench on your yard for the drain, and need space on your neighbor's yard temporarily for staging, tools, standing on your neighbor's yard but digging in your yard right? 

And I agree that I would be much more comfortable learning to manage my own affairs...So if I don't go with a PM, would a real estate agent still be worth relying on - at least temporarily so that I can ask detailed questions while I am still learning the ropes?

If you suffer from PTSD, anxiety, depression, or are generally unable to handle difficulties in life, please don't read any further.Emotional Support Animals are merely a symptom of an ever-weakening society.

for instance U have a rental at 700 a month in the mid west your criteria is 3X rent.. that's 2100 a month.. pay rent utls etc and that leaves about 250 a week to eat cloth and buy gas etc. so what you end up with is that renter class simply is in trouble if they got laid off temporarily for 2 weeks or 4 weeks.. so the question was not would you give charity.. but would you prefer to not have a vacancy and let them pay the missed month in later months.. thereby keeping landlord from having a vacancy and in the mid west work force housing vacancy will run 2 to 4 months worth of rent..

The government needs to be compensating landlords if it wants to require them to house people under government order.Of course, nobody wants these people to be homeless, but as I say, if the government wants to in effect use eminent domain to take over your property so it can be used, even temporarily, as government housing, then the government should have to pay reasonable compensation under that law.

In light of the Covid crisis it seems possible they've changed some of the rules temporarily.

Risky to be over-leveraged in any economic climate, the only potential upside is that the U.S. government could suspend mortgage payments temporarily (Italy already did this!).

It was worth it to us to lower the rent temporarily to what newer tenants were paying.