And even then plan to spend some time watch dogging them a bit from time to time.

The root cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union was over-spending.

According to some of the posts in this forum, I'm making a big mistake, but...Our HOA board has quit having meetings, quit doing maintenance on commons, quit taking care of the grounds, and can't tell me how they have or will spend the money.

Anything that the tenant puts on the application is just fiction until proven otherwise and I'm not going to spend hours and hours screening each applicant.

the RedX.com (ask for a referral link)and also just get on craigslist, fsbo.com, forsalebyowner.com, and spend 45 minutes firing off emails.one of those FSBO sites has phone numbers.

It is the best $350 you'll spend IMO.

I was looking for others to comment on the fact that it is or is not (in their opinion), worthwhile to spend $ on professional services when getting started inorder to prevent costly mistakes, be them legal, financial, or other.

Spend hours on this site reading.

BUT, you gave me hope......so now I'm going to spend the next few days researching a bunch of "maybe's" and I'll throw those low offers in and just see what happens.

Well it didn't even take 30 days for the Federal Reserve to change it's mind on how it was going to spend the 700 Billion dollar bailout.