We obviously handle the ones near us in-house, but hiring someone in another market to work one day a month is a bit of an odd task.My guess is that remote property management companies need to have a sort of Swiss-army-knife person in the area that can do many variable tasks for them and works on an hourly basis as there may not always be things to do, but I don't know that for a fact.How do remote/long-distance property management companies overcome the challenges of not being in the area?

That is a 99.97% FAILURE rate.Yet you happily listen to those who tell you to do MORE of a strategy with a 0.03% success rate.Come on man.My mission here is to stop all these scamming gurus fill this industry with all sorts of crap to justify you spending thousands on lists, mailers, SMS. 

My first did well based on selecting an area that we frequent.

Tenant selection is so so much important.

I suppose they provide some examples too of a well-optimized listing title and description, but as it also states, you can likely look at the listings that already rank well and sort of emulate or steal from those.Don't know if any of my presumptions are correct or not but just felt this might provide some insight based on my adjacent expertise.

Plus, after adding my wife to the account, QBO blocked me, and it took two months to sort out!

However , she has been fair in agreeing to waive any fee of any sort right now while it empty.What is the incentive for property managers to get a tenant placed?

You need some sort of subject matter expertise.

There are only a select few areas to steer clear from, but even those are getting better.

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