Just want to make sure I am on the same page...Keep in mind when thinking about property managers, they have overhead of conducting business, including employee wages and benefits, hardware and software costs, utilities and rent for their office location, insurance costs, licensing costs for their employees plus the time and effort put into maintaining compliance with applicable laws regarding third party management of real estate assets.

Be careful what you put in writing,a lawyer can use it against you in a court of law.The tenant is within his legal rights to demand a receipt for rent paid and the reason is not up for debate by anyone.You must furnish a receipt within a certain time period established by your local state law.You can furnish it electronically,US Post Office mail,or in person.Also,that statement regarding possibly moving into the apartment might been seen by a judge as illegal harassment of a paying tenant.You seriously should seek legal advice from a competent attorney and let them write responses to your tenants with the correct legal language.

Just curious as any tips or perspective will help outThank you

Otherwise we could just meet for a cup of coffee somewhere or at your office.

One "best practice" tip would be to make sure the lawyer spells out everything in the engagement letter.

There is no commercial tenant now, but there used to be a law office.  

@Sung Park Thanks for the tip.

I do not know exactly where I will be based as my wife's company has offices in all major cities but I have no problem investing out of state.

So if you can get a zoning variance to enable you to use it as a legal office,  wedding venue, accounting office, day care center. 

We help solve the issue of finding a contractor, and tracking a work order through completion but if your problems like outside that you may look to hire internallyIf you're looking for someone in the office to handle maintenance 9-5 you better make sure there is a 9-5 amount of work or else they start becoming jack of all trade employees which you inevitably will need to hire another coordinator down the line because their responsibilities will become muddled into the rest of the work flow.