Pay the bill yourself, then reimburse yourself by charging the tenants based on a formula.

We are vacation rental managers with many homes owned by Canadians.

Ha, hosts anywhere could apply this to their region simply by changing a few verbs and nouns.

Not sure if you have a place to live/call home, but by your content I'll assume you have a place to live and don't need to townhome yourself.

I've seen people who meet everyone of my qualifications and turned out to be night mare tenants and also people who missed the mark of certain criteria and turned out to be my golden tenants. 

By any chance are there any agents on this site from there?

Turns out artificial intelligence isn't that intelligent. 

The team members I've worked with are super nice, but I have to ask, are there significantly better turn key provider deals to be had with a little more patience/perhaps better expectations set from me?

My cleaners take a video after every turn, my team goes in to check everything is good after cleaning and record salt and PH level logs and I have a licensed plumber who is in charge of maintaining plumbing, water heater, and boiler system with logs.

I have already sold by owner and am well aware of 1031.