@nick thurston   Who did you decide to hang your license with?       

I guess I have some more thinking to do to decide exactly the path that's right for me.

One can is typically enough for a couple treatments for a small nest.Even if you decide to pay for it, do not lower the rent.

From this, you'll be able to get a line by line idea of what you would need to do.If you decide to improve beyond the market standard, be sure to assess whether the investment required will be paid back through above market rents or reduced vacancy.Sounds like you have a potential value add park on your hands which is an exciting project.

Ultimately we decided against it because if the market didn't continue to appreciate we didn't have an exit strategy we were willing to implement.  

Since my passion is residential architecture, I decided to start looking into real estate investment. 

It has since climbed to $4,000 - $5,000 per month in STR rents and we decided to keep in online as STR through the summer of 2019 to see how it does.We've only been doing the STR's for about 9 months but have earned Superhost status and have about 40 5-star reviews, so that is helping to drive interest.

When do most investors decide to turn over property management to a company?

The process looks like this: figure out your why, then once you have an idea of your needs and decide either flips, rentals, wholesale, etc & study them.

I'll do some research on that before I decide to flip a contract.