You can always hire a 3rd party PM, but managing it yourself is normally the best route.

Give the new tenant an option of $XXXX rent and they maintain the lawn or $XXXX + $YYY and you hire a landscaper.

I was looking to hire a designer or decorator to help with decor of the property. 

Are you going to have to hire someone who is licensed to legally run such an operation?

The attention necessary to understand who you are partnering with is not unlike hiring someone.

.#3 Contact Local Contractors for Labor Pricing / Hire a GC to ConsultCall local Subcontractors and get budget pricing for common repairs on your typical rehab project.For example, call a roofer and ask what their average cost per Square of Architectural Asphalt Shingle Roofing would be on a 1,500 sf house, with a 6/12 pitch.Note: Some contractors will be reluctant to share pricing without seeing the property, but tell them you are just looking for a rough budget number you can use on future projects.You can also pay a General Contractor a consulting fee of a couple of hundred dollars (per house) to walkthrough a few properties with you and provide a detailed estimate of prices that you can use as your 'menu for future projects.#4 Compile Your Prices into a Spreadsheet or Estimating SoftwareOnce you start to get a better understanding of Labor and Material costs you will want to store this data into a spreadsheet or software that you can use to help you streamline the estimating process.The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs comes with a spreadsheet that you can use to help you populate your own database of labor pricing and material pricing.

The first thought was hiring someone to d4d for us.

I doubt they will hire an attorney to sue you for $1,500 when they owe you 10x that.

Definitely hiring a property manager.

This is my least favorite type of work so hired this out to a handyman... more on that later.What was the outcome?