That comes first.If your tenant has done any damage, it's already happened and it's likely not as bad as you are imaging.Some areas have eviction services where you can hire someone to handle the entire eviction process for you, from the very first step of filing and serving notices, to the court date, to the eviction day itself.

I was thinking about adding pictures in there as well to enhance the marketing package.For those of you who have hired professionals to take pictures of your property, where did you find them? 

I've hired a property manager for my duplex in Walla to get experience managing a manager as well.

@Ryan@Ryan Keenan You said that you hired a lawyer.  

I would hire some kind of attorney and sue the hell out of the city to get your portion of the money back from them and then demolish the house and walk away.

My goal of owning a PM company stems from the desire to have a bunch of my own properties that I'll need to hire people to help manage anyways so why not take on other owners properties while I'm at it?

But, when I run my numbers I account for PM just in case I ever need, or want to hire that part out.

How do you hire someone far away? 

Instead of hiring a property management company, I would prefer to work with a trustworthy individual that can also do regular maintenance and repairs. 

It depends on your location, size of property, purchase price, nightly rate you can get, your upkeep of the property, and many other factors.If your unit shows well in photos and if you build up some good reviews in the first months, and your pricing is reasonable, it will be consistently rented.We have 3 of them, and all less than 1 year so the jury is still out, but in our experience so far, the startup and ongoing costs have been higher than expected, but all are getting good reviews, so in year 2 (now that they are stable) we expect to do pretty well.You have to make sure your town allows it, and you have to decide if you will manage it yourself and take on that extra work (communicating with the guests and people who will clean/make repairs) or if you will hire a property manager, which can be expensive, upwards of 25%.