@Steve Cribb to be successful, landlords need to set boundaries.Many tenants, especially desperate ones, try to make their problems their landlord's problems.As a PMC, we try to be reasonable, as "life happens" and "tenants are tenants for a reason", meaning they don't plan well and live paycheck to paycheck.Part of our being reasonable though, involves deadlines and we AUTOMATICALLY start the eviction process so a tenant knows this. 

I'd skip the build process as it's timely and you need a construction loan and your overall financials appear tight for that.

Cashflow is super tight so can't afford a local PM.

You will do better door knocking when you feel comfortable, and when you feel comfortable the people in front of you will feel more comfortable and they can tell (but we should also not feel like you are dressing for your living room either), and so dress how you would want to dress, in a way that is clean, professional, but more casual in clothes that fit well and are not uncomfortable to tight or too big--  otherwise you will feel it as soon as you knock on the door.  

Every market I have looked at gets tight with use of a pm.  

We do however have our preferred lender offer them incentives to use them so we know the mortgage is air tight.

As long as it meets "minimum" size standards it can look like a broom closet and be considered a bedroom... ridiculous, but it's out there, and in a tight market people will pay for it... 

Quote from @Makan A Tabrizi: Suggestion: when you give him options, include a deadline for a response!

Looking to design and furnish 4/3 townhouse in 6 weeks. Looking at some national and local companies.  Hunting and shopping myself won’t get it done. Any one have experience with Showplace or a similar company?

More and more people were speaking up about projects exceeding deadlines, ignored withdrawal requests or delays blamed on COVID, family problems, city slowness, ...Instead of taking responsibility, Sief decided to play the victim card and blame everything on Brian, who most of us never met.