@Reid McKay Knight I completely agree with @Mike Dymski  People invest in other people that have experience, proven record, transparency and consistent results.

If consistently implemented it will lead to a higher state of mind, which in turn produces results in life and business. 

Going with a local company can take some of the tasks off your shoulders and make it truly passive, but it likely will not perform even close to what you could do by listing it yourself on AirBnB and VRBO (or EVOLVE which does both).

The area consists of a mixture of both. 

However, once you get out there enough and consistently.

You want a bunch of security behind the note so if the buyer runs the property into the ground and it becomes semi or non-performing you have some options and recourse.Now if I was on the buyer side no way would I agree to such terms from the seller unless partially on some of them if the property was way under market.You have to find a balance where the buyer is happy and you are happy doing the deal.

When asked he says that this other person is not living there but we have been over in his apartment (with permission) 5 times in the past week because of various work that needs to be performed and this other person is there every time we have been there to do work even when the tenant is not there.

You basically assign your rights to somebody else (investor) and they perform on the contract you negotiated.

I know that no matter what list or what frequency I mail I will need to be consistent.

F you want consistent cash flow weekly or whatever just set up different bank accounts.