There are also an endless number of benefits to having someone in the same vicinity as your investment, not only to make the leasing process smooth, but also to have eyes on the ground to ensure that your property is being well taken care of.

If the deal is outside of Columbus, this company usually partners with a satellite company and makes sure the transaction goes smoothly. 

That's the hard legal line, but as far as keeping a tenant happy (especially a good one) there's something to be said for a gift card to a restaurant to smooth things over. 

Nothing different will happen and you are just costing yourself time and money and stress.Things can go smoothly when u turn this over to the professionals and follow their advice.

Ideally, I would pull it out and roll into a different property should things go smoothly with this one. 

Dude is aiming for a freaking level 5 smooth finish and what I want is a level 3 rental finish at this point and please use that texture machine that is been sitting there rented in the garage for three weeks now. 

Self cleaning and smooth top are easier to clean but the electric coil burners don't break as easy. 

To make this as smooth as possible.  

I only tell them at lease renewal.It's been very smooth but I worry what court will say.  

I would say that a strong part of it may be that he doesn't want you circumventing him, but I'd also say he may just be making sure the deal goes smoothly.