@Nabeel Kurji i work in sugarland. i take 99 all the way down from cypress. its about a 40 minute commute. i dont mind it. my house is from 2001 so 16 years and besides regular maintenance no issues... its very important to know the builder responsible for the construction of your house.. there are builders here in houston that their properties dont last 5 years and there are some like my (David Weekly) that will go decades without any issues.

Just watch for the specific counties policies in Airb renting versus regular/long term renting and be sure you get your rental license/certificate.

I would like to find someone In the area that I could possible use on the regular bases.

I'm pretty much like everyone on here who got tired of the regular 9 to 5 job and dreamed of bigger and better realities.  

So basically someone that comes in cheaper than regular contractors who work for people who don't know anything!

Matt,I am speaking to marketing, when the lead comes in they need to be set up for multiple campaigns and alerts, I am speaking to several things:new similar listingschanges on the properties showed(price, sold..etc)market reports for potential sellers, which would give prospect insight on what their property is worth All of this data is in MLS and it would require lots of manual work to compile data like that on regular basesFrom what I understand all of this can be set up in Top Producer, so these campaigns and alerts are triggered automatically.Let me know if that makes sense

Knowing how to do that will help you make good decisions.Track everything you do and review it regularly.  

At first I approached the business as any regular Realtor would.

I gave my $300,000 move-in ready beautiful vacant home to this large well known local co in Oct 2016.( Ive owned and self-managed another very similar rental in the same subdivision-- since 1998--and it has never had one day of vacancy in 16 years-- rented at $1860.)This professional pm co put all utilities in their name on my new property and turned the hot water heater ON and the Water ON ( even tho the main water cutoff valve is easily accessible in the coat closet beside the garage, the entire 3 months they 'managed it').They let the property sit VACANT OCT-NOVand on their "routine inspection on Dec 1, to make sure hobos had not moved in" they SAW the water heater in the garage was spewing (at full blast) A 20' stream/ fountain of HOT WATERand that the entire finished closed garage was covered COVERED !!

Be sure to differentiate "normal wear & tear" from damages.If you have a routine for move-outs, all of that is 'normal', eg: cleaning carpets.