Set your investment criteria, systems, and rules—and stick to them.2.Tenant management is all about structure.

Some places (including my own market) require an out of area owner to use a local property manager.

Found T&H realty services to be pretty interesting as they provide both buyer brokerage service (to help me find deals) as well as do property management i.e. they are not full turnkey provider necessarily, but reduces some of the hassle for me I guess as an out of state investor. 

Also, any advice on managing budgets for PPC in the real estate sector would be really helpful.Thanks in advance for any insights. 

Those effected go well beyond the property owners, the economic contribution of RE and subsequent economic loss in the form of: management, maintenance, landscaping, caretaking, hospitality, tourism, contracting, designing, pools and gardening is economically catastrophic and will reverberate well beyond specific zip codes.

@Juliann Morala Yep, a buyers agent that works exclusively with investors will have all the info you need and lots of options on contractors, lenders, attorneys, inspectors, property managers.

Even when I self manage I include pm because it is work and I do not work for free.

The managers are non-communicative.

I've always wondered if I could transfer to construction management.

@Basit Siddiqi Have you considered getting an assistant to manage all of those things rather than a property manager.