So, you’re at someone else’s expertise, decision making, experience, analytical skills, information flow, managerial capacity, oversight, etc.  

what factors should I be looking at when making this decision.  

You want an accountant who can help you strategize and who is responsive when you want to know the consequences of the financial decisions you are making throughout the year.Good luck.

Neighbors activity or their poor unit maintenance affecting your unit or tenants.

My parameters were that I did not want to add more than 2-3 employees, I did not want to give up control over the u;to are yes - no investment decision, and I didn’t want my position to become a full time job.  

If a company is performing poorly, they should allow to break up for the release.Failure to do these kind of things...results in bad publicity for the company like this post does.Thank you for sharing your experience.

Would love to hear what’s guiding your decision-making!

That said, we understand that insurance details can sometimes be complex or overlooked during the decision-making process.

On paper some of these buildings had amazing metrics, excellent cash on cash returns, cap rates, etc, but when I looked at the buildings I found the neighborhoods were rough, there was poor management in place, there was lots of deferred maintenance to address.

I've had friends buy new homes and have more problems due to poor construction than I've had in 'older' homes.