My main question is…i know i pay a deposit and we have an agreed upon term.

For example, in Florida, a landlord only has to give 3 days' notice to pay (excluding weekends and legal holidays) to the tenant, but the Zillow lease provides for more than 3 days.

Do you pay the heating/cooling or do the tenants pay those utilities?

Have you stopped at job sites where they are doing a renovation to see if the boss was there?

How can I confirm that the tenant is paying on time and properly maintaining the property?

And if the right property is purchased you can recoup the money to pay back loan and any other start up costs to repeat the process.

But with the array of services and fee structures current property management companies offer, it is entirely possible to pay an extremely low management fee and still be “fee-ed” to death as both an investor—and now even as a resident.Over the past 15 years, the amount of managers and fee structure variance in our industry has been incredible.

We are looking for reliable sites and resources that can assist us in finding these properties.

PM cannot make the tenant pay their rent but there should be a process on their side of what they are doing when the rent is not paid.   

I continued my program of over paying the principal amount of my monthly PITI to bring the loan principal amount down quicker as well.