Dependable routine maintenance is a part of this property with a full time team on site at the villa. 

We are able to get great incentives and the ability to own an investment property that take a very light maintenance budget for the first few years is a huge plus.  

Is your $$$/mo CF a true CF, or is that your net right now without any maintenance coming up?

Hoping to go down one of two paths:1- Buy a condo or small single family home and build equity and create value with my maintenance/construction background.2- Find a cash provider to do this on a larger scale with a 3-5 unit building. 

Am I correct that a condo, depending on area and neighborhood, could be a lower risk/maintenance investment for an absentee landlord as opposed to other properties?

That means weekly on going preventative maintenance fixing small problems before they become big problems. 

Think of yourself of an asset manager, not a maintenance provider or lease-up specialist (but do those well too).3.

Though at 1525/mth it is projected to cashflow a little less than 100/mth  -- the numbers do not include what I like to call reality numbers (vacancy loss, maintenance, capex reserves).

It sounds like what you really need is a handyman that you could send out when you need for on the ground maintenance.

Plus, other routine tasks like transferring loans and providing payoffs were way more difficult with them than it should have been.