Tenants must know and follow these rules for property maintenance and repairs to avoid legal or financial issues.Best Practices for Landlords:Define Maintenance Responsibilities: In the lease agreement, it's important to clearly outline authorized maintenance tasks for tenants, detailing responsibilities to minimize disputes and foster a transparent landlord-tenant relationship.Provide Training: Landlords can offer training to improve property maintenance and foster a positive relationship with tenants, empowering them to take better care of the rental property.Regular Inspections: Schedule routine property inspections to proactively identify and address maintenance needs.

You need:a manager contract outlining duties and responsibilitiesState Employer account for workman's comp and withholding for Fed and State SSILiability insurance for the manager & E&O (Errors & Omissions) insurance also.To get out of that trap, you will need to first find a PM of your choice and make sure they will provide the on-site, live-in manager. 

My assumption is that the entity structure will be outlined in the proprietary lease?  

--We'd prefer the property be passive and property managed...while this certainly eats into profit (I've already budgeted this into the calcs outlined above), this has worked quite well at our other VR, but we have a great PM.  

I was searching for a step by step typical outlined process online somewhere, but couldn't find anything.  

This is outlined in IRS Publication 560.

The zoning would outline maximum building height, site coverage, set-backs from property lines, parking requirements and floor space ratio. 

From a high-level that process is: - know your goal and reason why - know the terminology - know how to run the #s - know how to find the good market and submarkets - build a brand - find team members - find investors - find deal - do right due diligence on deal -  close and do asset mgmt Investing in someone else's deal will be a little helpful just to see the process but I think the better approach would be to align yourself with the right people to help you work through the process I outlined above. 

@Brian Gibbons, do I simply go to the Keller Williams's website and sign up for something or is there a process for me to following that is outlined somewhere? 

A few preliminary questions are outlined below.Some questions to ask broker:What is the unit mix (number of 1Bed, 2Bed, etc.)?