The best way to think about it is you're in the business of renting a property-that business isn't operational until it's ready and available for rent (aka in service). 

A buddy of mine up in Omaha once inherited a tenant who refused to let inspectors through the door.. ended up pushing back renovations for a month and racking up costs like you wouldn’t believe.

Both my wife and my background is in manufacturing, specifically operations, customer service, and project/account management. 

Mine (Jeff) is spelled the right way!!

In Pittsburgh, where I live and operate, this would be a two to three-month process in front of almost all out local district magistrates.

Common tasks include guiding (for example, blind, severe physical disability), alerting (severe diabetes, seizures), retrieving/operating (pushing buttons, switches, etc).

Hey BP Family,A neighbor of mine passed away about 2 months ago and I have been trying to contact the family (trust) to see if they were going to be selling the property.

If your property management company is good and has built an internal maintenance team which has set rates and had strong relationship relationships with licensed contractor which should keep costs in control, you should never need to shop contractors on your own I wouldn't think.So in short, our policy is give us your preferred contractors upfront if you have them, but then we work all tickets to resolution including dispatch, and payment of invoices.This is of course for operational expenses.  

It sounds like you may be a better fit for a smaller operation that still offers guided tours.

Does anyone have any advice on effectively setting up temporary battery-operated cameras on a long-term rental property to deter break-ins and squatters while rent-ready repairs are being made before a tenant moves in?