I am excited to take advantage of the 1031 process down the road.

My advice is to nickel and dime the repair process as much as possible. 

How long could the eviction process be? 

The ones that are successful use these experiences to alter their process/procedures/systems to ensure they do not happen again. 

Just going to be blunt - if you worry about something like this I'd hire a PMIf it's a good tenant I just fix it

We are in the process of renting out one of our properties to four college students.

Just want to make sure I’m protected given I haven’t hired a solo subcontractor in this way before.Thanks for the advice.

Or hire them to walk a property and make decisions quickly. 

The next part of this thought process is how are they as tenants if they are great tenants do what you have to do to keep them as long as it doesn’t affect your numbers and you don’t end up below market rents. I have seen situations where landlords and tenants are both very firm on their requested rent price and it was a minimal difference and the landlord let them move out and the money it cost the landlord to clean fix paint and rent the unit out to a new tenant outweighed the difference they would have made the tenant after moving expenses and paying first class and Security again probably outweighed what they would’ve paid had they just stayed so sometimes it’s better to just negotiate and flex a little to renew a tenant than to keep swapping tenants.

Take the job market, which has been critical to the economy’s resilience - hours worked, hiring and quit rates, and temp jobs are all down.