I feel like it would be great to trust a property management company on all of this, but it would be hard not to step in if you could do a better job at screening bad tenants (eg screening HUGE future problems).I initially managed properties myself, but now I delegate that responsibility to my business partner, personal assistant, or a property manager at my brokerage.Most PMs I know will send you an applicant for final approval and you can get on the phone with them and ask them questions

The property passed final testing by the county health department.Is this anything I should be concerned about?

I had one were we did not get to it for a while 6 months or so it was just boarded up.. when i went to sell it wholesalers were going through it said it smelled bad.. one of them finally went down to the basement and found a corpse that had been for quite a while. scared the heck out of him..

I kept the house for 5 years and finally called and requested the Chief Building Inpector.

PC can't make any final decisions on rezones, parcel maps, etc.

As you mentioned, it might be difficult timing the sales of each of properties where you can achieve a combined exchange (multiple properties into 1 property / or a few properties).Just a quick note that may be helpful - I work with a group of investors that can help with a combined exchange into a single property and will buy it back once you've found a replacement propertie(s) as the final destination for your capital.

I dont know how many units you are talking about, my biggest problem was tenants having easy access to me.I finally decided to use a software and got an internal property manager so moved away from it.Currently setting up the maintenance request portion of it, so will see how it goes.

It's worth looking at a blended rate calculator before you make a final decision of the type of loan as it will show the new "blended rate" of your HELOC and first mortgage if you go that route.

Then get photos and get third party verification that everything was done right prior to making your final payment to the contractor.

It took 3 years, but,  I finally navigated the permitting process and now have all the permits I need to build 6 small cabins on a river in the mountains.