we also saw an increase in vacancies and a significant drop in the quality of applicants on those same units during that time. 

Are there any suggestions on quality HOI companies?

Closed and added quality property to our portfolio Lessons learned?

Do you typically see that the overall cost (time and money) is more efficient working with a quality wholesaler, or do you find that your return on investment is better for running your own acquisition marketing initiative?

Views are important  but not the be all for quality rentals.

Looking for contractor that is reliable and does good work, that is comfortable with using 'big box store' quality materials and working quickly.

The repayment terms for a 401k participant loan are equal monthly/quarterly payments of principal and interest (typically prime plus 1%) over a 5 year term (longer if used to acquire your principal residence).Please note that if you take a full $50,000 and then pay back the loan, you can't take another $50,000 until 12 months after the first loan was fully paid back.Per the loan offset rules that went into effect with the 2018 Tax and Job Act: if you leave your job and the loan is current at the time you leave your job but then the loan goes into default because you left your job, you will have until your tax return deadline (including any timely filed extension) to make the loan current by depositing the outstanding balance into an IRA (and thereby avoid the taxes and penalties that would otherwise apply).Please keep in mind the multiple loan rules:Under those rules, the sum of the balances of a participant's outstanding 401k loans under a single 401k plan (using the highest outstanding balance of each loan over the last 12 months) can't exceed 50% or $50,000 whichever is less.

Quality PM's would realize it's a long term relationship.  

I don't want the quality of our lives to be tied to how much we work.

In quality control this is know as a fail/pass test as opposed to a quanititative or qualitative test, which tend to be a lot more complicated and are usually done by engineers and then benchmarked against tolerances.