If they can afford it, outsource it and work with them.

The obvious hip-shot is to maximize rents and minimize expenses, so look for means to reduce or avoid your monthly outlay, like moving utilities to the tenants, shopping for a better insurance company, outsourcing laundry services. 

There is a steep learning curve for tenant screening and landlording, may be easier to outsource.  

All that said we have and still out source all our management. 

., if they include the laundry service or if they require you to outsource it, and anything else they may or may not do besides the actual cleaning.

Outsource that stuff.

If you don't like something, insist on a change or don't sign it.My preference is to use smaller property managers who are directly responsible for their work and do not outsource it. 

I live in the area and am going to be hands on with the whole thing whether I outsource our use an onsite manager for at least a year until I stabilize the property.

That being said, I am the property manager and I can't leave the building unsupervised for long periods of time even if I manage to outsource alot of the busy work.

But I see no reason at all to pay a PM to do what I'm doing.Repairs, collections (7 to 8 hours a month)Make ready (2 hours a month - once I do what a PM does and outsource all the work).Leasing - 5 to 8 hours to lease it up.