I personally would approach this with a self assessment.

@Alexandra RossCongrats on taking the first step into the journey that is real estate investing!

like - your own market. or a market a couple hours away that you can spend some time in person in. or where you went to college. or where you like to vacation.

I am not a market-timer, and a time in market person so just for folks calling that out that is with this considered.

I'm thinking about using it to help my wholesaling journey.

Local and state laws are changing on the daily so I think that the right Property Manager really helps with that but hiring a PM or self managing is always a personal call.

You want to be able to select who rents your house and how do you know the person they sublet to will pay the rent and take care of the place?

Hello REI world, I'm at a space in my investing journey where I know I am probably not doing all the right things and if I want to continue, I need to really change my processes and get better with learning new strategies and standardizing.

well, I guess nobody knows where to find him and the one person who is reselling his materials is terrible at marketing and doesn't respond to email questions.

If you know it is allowed in the area you are looking, but have seen one person have a problem, I wouldn't make a big change to my thinking based on a single incident.I haven't heard of anyone having the same issue.