Understand the fees involved and calculate the total cost for an entire year of management so you can compare the different managers.

As Plano is a pretty nice clean cut buttoned up type of community they don't seem to have a lot of tolerance even for just a few bad apples.Dallas is considering a ban. 

Most blinds are tough and time consuming to clean, prone to breakage/creases, strings break and get stained etc. 

Hauling it away is the bigger task, but cleaning up after a fire is probably even more work.

The apt is on the 2nd floor and the furnace is in the attic.I will talk to the heating contractor about setting up a floor temp ( might involve installing a 2nd t-stat as a couple people suggested).

Since your parents seem open to your involvement, I would start start small. 

It'll need some trim and paint on the inside as well as some cleaning and minor touch-up, so I wouldn't consider it far off from being rent ready.I am interviewing property managers now and trying to ask all the right questions.Thank you for sending over those articles.

I'd rather have a property remain vacant to I can spend time cleaning up and getting it ready and back-online so it could be available for someone else to rent.

Going this route is more involved and that makes it more costly too.

The other quesiton i have is if private equity is starting to get involved in this market, companies like Apollo & Carlyle, does that change your feelings about getting involved in the space?