My manager is largely responsible for that. 

Curious, did you ever start your project? 

I have an excellent agent partner who is an MTR manager there with 24 units.

Highly recommend self-managing so you can take advantage of a cost segregation and the short term rental loop hole!

And i just wanna make sure we are prepared and can finish this project.   

I work with a lot of househackers and they're typically on the 12 month cycle, rinse and repeat.While the proposition of acquiring an investment property outside of your market in a "landlord friendly" state may sound appealing, i would recommend you stay local for now and househack another couple of properties over the next few years until you've got some more time / experience under your belt.you would need a management company to cover your property that is outside of your market which would not only take 8-10% of your gross it would also leave you a bit vulnerable to a property management company that you A.)know nothing about and B.)you won't have the experience or cashflow or proximity to deal with any headaches that may arise.i would recommend staying local and househacking your way along for now and then maybe hire a local property management company initially to work with your current/local properties to get a taste of what to expect if and when you begin investing outside of your market.

Have been talking about getting into real estate investing for the last 2-3 years and finally pulled the trigger on a 3 unit house hack in Soulard that will be closing later this month and will be self-managing the property.I'm trying to network a bit with other investors, build a solid team of contractors / handymen, and set my systems up in way to scale, but also so my tenants have a good experience.

Quote from @Jacklyn Robins: You've "never" had this issue, but you've only managed a few properties for five years.

I am an out of state investor.How have dealt with this issue>Neal Schadler There are multiple property managers in the "build your investing team" section that can help here. 

I tracked it and heard from the property manager they may take $1.3mil, but they didn't even flinch at $1.2mil cash, and we got it done.