It sounds like you are VERY new to all of this.

Congratulations on the sale.

If you're out of state and it's first time, this is really important

Purchase price: $93,750 Cash invested: $70,312 Purchased 2-1/2 acres of raw land with the hope of one day building a home on it.

This is an opportunity zone area.Is this a good place to buy investment properties? 

Read our copy & paste advice below on better screening for a PMC.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.

But its a good exercise to go through this and try to figure out how it would be more cost effective for first time home buyers.Also keep in mind when I started in RE  Seminars or weekend work shops were put on by brokers and agents teach ing these buyers how to buy their first home..

If a person doesn't fit into one of the two categories below, what would the point of posting on this website be?

The tax assessment last year was based on the home's prior condition but fast forward to this year and the taxes have doubled.

From my experience (being on the DNC list and getting dozens of telemarketing calls a week) the main strategy is to ignore it and call everyone anyway.