Thanks in advance for your insights Yes, to  manage property for others in PA you need to be a real estate brokerage OR you need to be the owner's W2 employee.

The 3rd party property management company wants this onsite manager to be the employee of my LLC, which I am not sure with.

Let me ask this question - if one of your employees during work hours walks into a store and decides to rob it or someone picks a fight with them and kills them, will you legally defend them? 

SEPARATE MANAGEMENT LLC A separate managemnt LLC may make sense when your portfolio is large enough to absorb the cost of an employee and you want to self manage.

My goal is to train all of my employees to grow to the point where they can move on and create their own businesses.

I like to be hands-on and don’t enjoy the financial responsibility and management of W-2 employees.

or 2. hire a Property management company who provides multiple employees to cover your asset for 10% or less per month which probably works out to less than $2500 per month. 

When you are an employee the company pays for corporate account and each gets their own logins- company pays.

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Assuming there was an employee with that name working there when you checked, go there today and confirm it’s your tenant.