The best idea I have is to do an online search for the property management company , with the name in quotes so it will be an exact match. 

That is, if assessed value never, ever matches market value, I'm being too conservative, but if something changes, and assessed value catches up with market value, I'd rather have accounted for that up front.Looking forward to any thoughts.Thanks!

They were 40+ years old and I wanted them to match, obviously. 

check a few prior bills, calculate average daily consumption (actual water use not the dollars), make sure prior bills were based on actual and not estimated readings (utility companies will sometimes bill on estimates if they can’t read a meter for some reason then adjust once they have the actual reading), monitor the meter for a few days and see if the actual use matches the average you calculated.

My pitches to my investors will be ROI for invested cash and 5-10yr equitable share matching % invested or until paid.Thanks for your wisdom!

is "HGTV Effect"), but if that 5% down is a struggle, taking on a flip isn't a model match, you don't have the wiggle room for the expense overruns that have characterized this type of work since March 2020.Almost everyone falls on their face with this, but there are some folks I know that very recently did a very kick-butt job on the "first time purchase flip to ourselves and put the extra space on airbnb" thing.

Since you can invest anywhere, here's a recent blog post with a list of potential places: Top 10 Real Estate Markets for Cash Flow in 2022There's also this book, Long-Distance Real Estate Investing (I've not read it, I just know of it's existence).Finally, BiggerPockets has an agent matching system where you can find investor friendly agents in a given locale, Find an Agent

Luckily the PM vendor can match the price of the current vendor, which makes the decision even easier. 

So let's work together find a match see how we can help each other and let's make some money!

A hotel room cannot match this.