Considering how rising prices might influence people's decisions is interesting.

All you need is a single place to track tenant information, payment history, maintenance, and a few other things.

Recommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

Then you can breakout to do your own deals with the information to estimate rehab costs by just looking at the deal at face value with all that new knowledge from the partnership.

Thank you very much for the information.

There is a risk but one thing you can do to minimize is to have them provide information - full names, address, where they work, etc.

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Thanks for the information, I will be checking out the Simple Life Retreat.

All of our cash has been going into a larger development so we haven't built on our remaining 8 lots yet, but if you are interested in getting involved I can send you more information or set up a call with our partners.  

Some great information here - thanks for taking the time!