This takes time, effort, experience, and money. 

Picking the right firms and then manageing them will be a lot of the effort.  

Does the occupancy rate lead to a high enough income for the time and effort spent and compared to long term rentals?

I have a few rentals here in the OKC area and am beginning the search for a PM team so I can concentrate my efforts elsewhere.  

My advice is put a lot of time and effort into it and you will find results.

We have recently started one in Blacksburg and would like to possibly combine our efforts :)

I'm a real estate professional and still a long ways away from my own investing goals so it takes time, effort, and WORK.

We are real estate consultants.Hopefully this is of some help...there are of course plenty of brokers who are looking out for only their interests, but I'd argue that the most successful brokers are those who genuinely care about providing value to their clients regardless of their personal gains.

But that is normally done on multifamily or commercial.In single family, it is probably not worth the effort for either side.

It almost feels like New Orleans in some spots.The Creekside part of it was formed in 1993 as a nonprofit effort to improve the quality of life in the area.