Is the process of hiring said mercenaries legal in the US?

Virtual staging would help, pictures of the parking lot would help as well.

@Andrew Self there are attornies you can hire to resolve your credit issues.

@Jordan Laney the devil is always in the details when you are hiring a PM company.

This included all the data from the first 6 months of the year as I did not hire her until July.

In order to get there it would be good if you could keep feeding cashflow proceeds back into acquisitions, on top of your continued W2.Speaking from experience, you can manage probably 30-50 units yourself nights and weekends before you really need to hire someone.

@Ricky Smith if you continue to expand, how will you hire help w/o a PMC set up?

Virtually any cap ex expense will wipe out more than a years returns. 

No, DIY is not the same as a virtual site visit or a study done by engineers @Dana YobstAs @V.G Jason said, you could very likely cost yourself more in time and money.

Hire a property management company who will manage it for you.