This is essentially how it worked for the 100 years prior to the MLS being put on the internet.

Talking to your real estate tax person and an asset protection attorney and then making your decisions is a reasonable way to go about this task.

They also do a lot of data entry and admin tasks.  

They won't assign tasks to vendors unless owners have money - and expect owners to proactively view their portals to see requests - and depend on automation to get their attention.

Your challenge is to make your request seem like it’s part of their regular, bureaucratic tasks. 

I work in comp so I have no issues building my own but I'd prefer to simply use one that's already created.Finally, aside from reviewing prior projects on the company's website and scouring the internet for reviews, does anyone have any tips on how to select a given company?

While I do have employees to handle other tasks, I do all of my own biz dev. 

You could gather all of the information from the internet but double checking with PM's would be smart as we had multiple changes in May as you know. 

Not an easy task.

The most common benefits a landlord can get from an arbitrage agreement are: reduced vacancy expense, decreased maintenance costs (most arbitragers agree to fix any damage done by guests), increased rent (most pay a premium), reduced number of hours managing the property (aka it's more passive)Some less common benefits, but still worth mentioning: Using the property to host their own guests at a lower rate during the "vacation season", Revenue sharing, arbitrage managing landscaping, and other management tasks.