No don't hire a PM until you can scale - that landlord experience is worth it's weight in goldHappy to connect and talk through more questions any time - my answers are just based on my personal experience so take them with a grain of salt!

The one thing you don't want to have to do is drag someone around with dead weight and them absolutely hate everything about RE, and it sounds like your spouse is at the beginning stages of RE!

Ladd has also found 14 dead bodies on his farm" Wake up and smell the decay. 

I bring this up because if you call an agent and let them know you have a preapproval letter then the conversation seems to carry a little more weight.    

They believe it is natural settling from the weight of the kitchen sitting on the floor. 

I know this is old but wanted to weight in. 

Go put one together.Without one of those no one can tell you what you should do correctly and in any case you have no basis for valuing one persons advice vs someone else.If you did have an IPS, it would most likely indicate that the recent run up in real estate prices means your RE portion of your investment portfolio is over weighted. 

This method keeps my reputation in tact, keeps me out of jail, and does not cause my body physical harm due to stress and anger.

Whoops I didn’t read the body sorry edit 

It was difficult to install and has been problematic as it bends with the weight of our two overweight tenants who like to take showers together.