.- Most contractors will cut corners, or worse, once they figure out they won't be watched closely:( Your job will also go to the bottom of their priority list.Monitoring progress is relatively easy: hire that same inspector to go by weekly or before any payments to take a VIDEO of:1) What was done2) Quality of workmanshipOne other thing you didn't ask about, payments to contractors.- They all want 50% down or as much as they can squeeze out of you. 

This PM company is clearly out of their depth even though they told me last month that they had hired more staff and were making improvements to their processes.

Glue residue can really be a pita, but a judge probably doesn't think so, but will usually respect hired out repairs.

Why not just hire a local real estate agent to handle leasing? 

I then hired contractors for plumbing, electrical, roofing, and HVAC upgrades.

I then hired contractors for plumbing, electrical, roofing, and HVAC upgrades.

I fired my pm who got me by purchasing the pm i had hired and lost my 1000s of reviews during covid lock downs (so 2020 and 2021 were covid impacted).  2022 had a down time that affected the year.  2023 and 2024 the entire off season was worse than before covid.  

If you can't perform to the new standard were setting, I strongly suggest stepping back and hiring one of us who are setting this new standard. 

We are deciding between hiring a property management company, finding a full time handyman or a hybrid of hiring a property management company for our bigger buildings and using a handyman contracting company for the easier ones.

This is usually the case if past owners did a poor job maintaining, and just hired the cheapest neighborhood handyman to patch everything.