The reason I ask is the manager might not know where to get the best contractors at the best pricing.They might be calling someone out of the phone book etc.Those companies mainly do retail jobs and will do an occasional investor job and be slightly lower in price but not much.If you find a contractor that does investors jobs for their main business they understand you need a low price.They get in fast and complete and make money with volume of deals versus up charging fat profits on retail deals.The most expensive cost of tiles is the cost per sq ft to install them.Regular guys wants something crazy like 3 to 4 sq ft.You have to find someone to do the labor for cheap that lays tiles and that is the key.Make sure the property manager is not building in a fee for themselves into the bid or there is a main contractor using subs to up charge you.

Buy a primary residence 3.5% down multifamily that needs work (this is completely legit as long as you leave a unit vacant and are using it, for say, repair work and the occasional overnight).  

Most of the time I'll use them (when I determine the cost/benefit is in favor of insured contractors), but occasionally -- and this is often true of landscapers -- I'll determine the risk is relatively low, and the per-transaction savings are great enough that I'm willing to eat a potential cost down the road should there be an issue.

The only reason we have ours is because we occasionally use it ourselves as a vacation home.

I work from home and whenever I need to go downtown I just use public transport, and worst case there’s the occasional uber/lyft

2) If they can't get access, why these lands have even value, even $1 for anyone else than the adjacent lands, since you can't even go to your land occasionally, without trespassing other lands?

Occasionally, one will be a probate situation.

Despite occasional comments to the contrary, there are still deals to be found with the banks. 

Occasionally guests will stay for 3-4 nights and that gives her a bit of a break.I have thought about this but having to clean the Airbnb constantly and do the laundry all the time is extremely off-putting.

But occasionally there will be something that links a person to the LLC, just takes a few more google searches.