Mid-priced cabinets at Ikea are perfect for a STR and would help lower costs for you!

You will also have added costs because the primaries that are currently mortgage free will now have mortgages.

All of your equity will be eaten up by closing costs alone  

Understand the fees involved and calculate the total cost for an entire year of management so you can compare the different managers.

For things like cleaning, painting, etc; she should be hiring people to do that (or if she wants to then contract herself) and bill you those at cost. 

Depending on the nature of what needs done, *in general* a good contractor will cost you about the same thing as you acting as the GC yourself because they get better pricing from subs than you will get, and pocket the difference as profit.

Builder costs went up.

The company's legal counsel has said a guarantor is not needed, citing the company's annual revenue and an employee, effectively, being unwilling to cut a check on behalf of their employer if it came to that.

Obviously aside from minor material cost savings the biggest reason is to save labor on all of the cutting in, which I feel would likely be moot with 3 sheens.

We know there are multiple venues to get the leads, some very costly others not, some demanding tremendous effort (like going door by door, driving for dollars , or making thousands of cold calls etc.) , others not so much (mass mailings, for instance).