@Bunmi JooRecommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

My broker's property management company is local to the area and very familiar and comfortable with this product type if you want hands off management.

This is DR Horton SFH, and is a newly built single story 4 bed, 2 bath that is surrounded by expensive MI homes. 3) Move into the townhome. 4) Use my $130,000 HELOC as an emergency if rent defaults do happen and save for a year until I reach my emergency fund goal of $41,000? 

There's a difference, and that difference is how they benchmark cost of funds and interest rate risk from a balance sheet capital perspective. 

I assume we would use a title company.

But I also spent a lot of time learning before I did my own projects and had time and funding on my side.

I am leaning to rent by room, given I could use the extra cash flow, and I currently work for a property management company so I have a good system in mind to use. 

I have seen plenty of huds on properties I funded for fix and flippers were commissions were that high or higher and lets not talk about wholesalers who might charge 100% if they can get awaay with it.. difference is they dont disclose the brokers disclose to their sellers..

They can just go to Airdna and check how much money the average short-term rental in Punta Cana makes and they'll have an objective answer.Finally, I'm getting bombarded by messages from Dominican developers building short-term rentals in Punta Cana so, when looking at the statistics, bear in mind that the supply and therefore competition is going to increase significantly.My dear friend, due to the tourist, real estate and industrial development, there are approximately 100 all-inclusive resorts along the entire coast of Punta Cana, Bávaro and Miches, Grupo Punta Cana is the pioneer company in tourism and development of the Punta Cana and Cap area. cana, this same company is building the first and only Hublogistico in the entire Caribbean, guaranteeing thousands of jobs not to mention that each all-inclusive hotel generates from 1 thousand to 4 thousand employees depending on the hotel, not counting jobs in the construction sector, airport, local businesses and also businesses to supply the large demand for food and products in the hotel sector, including the entertainment and art department of hotels.Since you mentioned that it is impossible to compete with an all-inclusive, obviously a 100-square-meter apartment cannot compete with an all-inclusive with 1,000 rooms.

I would be putting up 50% of the funds needed to buy and rehab.