Hey BP & All,    My partner and I are trying to make a few decisions moving forward, and I wanted to ask a few questions in what will be a sort of general way and invite people's opinions on outsourced systems and outsourced marketing. 

Trying to figure out if I should keep it in house or out source this position.

...What 'In-House' services do you provide and what do you outsource?

That effort is outsourced to their strategic partners that are strictly in the testing business.We had a pretty big laundry list...

(I'm not heartless, I'm just not going to waste time and money on a deadbeat, I will stick to this philosophy within reason.)Once I've got enough properties to make management a full time job, I'm outsourcing to a property manager and will focus my efforts on managing my property manager.EXPENSES:Mentioned earlier, I realize that on average 50% of collected rents go to expenses along the life of the properties so I will set 50% aside diligently in the LLC's savings emergency fund to kick Murphy out of the business.MY LOGIC:I am risk adverse.

Like @Lee Marsteller said, I have heard Odesk is good, and I've heard from many that the Phillipines is the place to outsource to, due to price, understandability of English (which apparently understandability is not a word, so they won't use it..) and educated, hard-working people.

Or will you need to outsource those things?

In other words, don’t outsource the ultimate responsibility of knowledge acquisition and decision making.

I believe most short sales are best outsourced to full time short sale negotiators.

Do you guys want to manage these properties or do you want to outsource everything?