If you are honest, transparent, relentless and work your tail off, you can do this.

@Gaby Liu unfortunately there are still few bad eggs in the BF forum even with all efforts been made to make the forum as transparent as possible. 

@Timothy RayAs a fellow property manager the biggest things owners look for are communication, transparency and problem solving ability-how fast do they respond to you, do the answer your questions, are they actually helpful-do they lie, will they openly share documents with you.

As an investor you should expect an excellent standard of care and customer service packaged with transparency.

You want a PM that gives excellent customer service through excellent communication and transparency in everything they do, especially maintenance billing.Do all 3 and you will win long term.

That said, I want to be transparent with them so I also want to report back if it is not. 

I respect Peter Harris as a teacher giving valuable information on YouTube, but the data on students/mentees is not very transparent. 

I have attended many of these meetings and have some have even pointed me in the right direction but the presentations have always been quite predictable and transparent.

It includes, among other things, a comprehensive map of the Cleveland area, grading each area from A+ down to F, using a consistent, objective and transparent methodology using publicly available data (as opposed to some of the maps/guides that brokers have created, based primarily on their subjective opinions).

Good job reasonable rates, they use Buildium platform, very transparent. the forum ere usually kicks out a link or direct referral contact, my contact is Bruce, DM me if you need more info.