If I were you I would try to get firm terms for each of the two strategies and then negotiate from there.  

This is who I used in Atlanta several years ago:Ty JordanJordan Law Firm, LLC12th Floor1170 Peachtree StreetAtlanta, Georgia 30309

Hi, Katie M..To be a residential property management company in Tennessee (for outside parties), a firm must be a licensed real estate brokerage.  

One agency offered to treat the December payment as EM, I said no way.  

My name is Sherwin and I'm a designer in an architecture firm looking to get more involved in real estate investing.

Visit the teams you expect to work with, see what they do and how they do it, Meet the people see the communities.Do your homework, be invasive, ask tough and hard questions, scrutinize and understand the pro-forma and what the pro-forma is saying, just because it says one thing in Kansas and another in Cleveland, does not mean they have the same definition, I know our core logic tells us they should all be the same, but, believe em I have seen some crazy stuff over time. 

My father has been my business partner since we started our brokerage/investment firm in 2011.

There are a few big name investment firms in our area that tend to snatch up good deals before they are placed on MLS unfortunately.Best of luck!

One thing we try to do before the sale is get the future investor with the PM Firm we use.

We sometimes act like innkeepers and I have teammates who bake cookies on their own for some of the tenants.We are fair but we are also firm.