While not ideal it ever occurred, perhaps they waive their renewal fees so you recuperate some of the lost revenue.What will it cost to get a new management firm?

You do however have to maintain them including keeping minutes, separate financials, ideally separate bank accounts, and file tax returns. 

Using the search feature here on BP in the forums and seeing if anyone else is talking about that market is also a good place to start.Finally, doing your own deal analysis/underwriting and making sure the deal still works under less than ideal circumstances is a must.

I know Rhode Island is small but I think if you can at least get started with them with a RI deal or two that would be ideal, its a big jump to take that type of money and trust by investing it in a new, unfamiliar market. 

Generally speaking, it would obviously be ideal if there was enough cash flow to pay off the homes more quickly and take a little for your own personal bills.

I shortlisted these areas and would ideally want to start off on one of these.

Ideal temperature is 78 degrees.

Make sure you get responsive and call them   -You need someone ideally who has done this before.

Any answer you might give, would be useless in real life, once the real world introduces the "...all supply-side considerations...".Have you ever seen the movie, "Back to school" with Rodney Dangerfield?

Think about who your ideal client is and what is the message you want to present to them in the first instant they see your logo.