If the tenant knows they have to pay, they won't report the problem.

Financial Management: Property managers provide detailed financial reports, handle rent collection, and manage operating expenses.

Now if you're just looking to make your credit report look better, that might work but not sure why that would be worthwhile unless you were just looking to borrow more consumer-type debt rather than hard asset notes. 

Part of the premise of hiring a manager is that they will manage repairs, including efficiency of repairs.Anyone can pick up a phone and throw unlimited amounts of money at a vague reported problem.

As others have said, you can do the digging yourself with the municipality or hire an Architect to do this due diligence and provide a zoning and property analysis report bringing all the info together for you.

Thank you Bill. ill add the other expenses and report back in a year! 

From a tax reporting standpoint though, I am curious why showing a profit is even a concern. 

You should expect to pay him $300 for an hour of his time (which should include a written report).

And here is the latest BLS report. 

Now with Covid we do not even travel to the U.S. so will use Facetime to see the progress I also get reports on our internal system for all my our  contruction activities.