@Noam Birnbaum It sounds like communication is the most important feature in a property manager for you. 

By the way, my ultimate goal is to get into real estate investing and I feel like being a real estate agent will really help me in that, not to mention communication and marketing skills.

If your contractor will pay the cost of the improvement up front, this is not a problem, most contractors wand some money up front so you need to communicate with the contractor.

Communication and reputation are key to getting deals accepted. 9 out of 10 deals use agents according to title company records, and FSBO/off market deals without agents involved are actually where the majority of litigation occurs, because they're often a complete mess, so I think anyone saying agents aren't needed is living in Lala land personally.

I prefer the one on one communication.

Come January, the tenants stopped communicating, never paid rent and wouldn’t give us access to the house even though we were in the middle of repairs in the kitchen.

You've issued him a notice to vacate and he won't communicate with you any more.

Seller is a tired landlord and doesn’t have great communication with tenants...

A good seller’s realtor should have already communicated that, but who knows what they think.

My lawyers did review all of the docs and communication/emails and confirmed I have a very strong case.