I'm Pratik Patel, a healthcare professional excited to join the BiggerPockets community.

The data @Devin Conley posted is pretty solid from my experience (I do not know Devin nor how he sourced the data, just going by my own investing experience).  

A PMC is the ONLY one that will deal daily with your property.Here's some copy & paste advice on hwo to screen PMCs:Recommend 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.

"The Millionaire Real Estate Agent" by Gary Keller teaches the same thing and is a good read.

The deal has to make sense and you really need to know the comps to make sure your investment is going to actually make money.

I simply know where to find the nuts; under the tree of course.

Hey Guys, I've been in the Birmingham Market my whole life!

I apologize for not coming back here to update my own comment thank you for clarifying this though because someone reading this later might get help from this so thank you again.

I've finally made the decision to get into the market to Build to Rent.

For our flooded location luckily we had full coverage.