Your situation is complex enough to warrant hiring professionals to help you.

Job growth has slowed in recent months, and worse, employers in most industries appear reluctant to hire new workers in the face of deep uncertainty about the course of the virus.

Residents tent to get upset when there are many people coming in and out and this can cause you many problems.3) If you decide to hire management company, make sure they are great.

Or hire someone to manage it in Houston and argue to CA that they're the ones operating the LLC. 

I am interested in learning more about next steps, rental viability, mortgage lending, hiring and assessing property management companies, and any other insight into the area.

Two things to consider 1. hire a buyer's agent if one is not involved, unless you have considerable experience buying houses there are a lot of things that can go wrong with disclosures, title etc. 2. 

I stayed and managed a portfolio that got to be about $20 million in commercial property, I left for a while but recently they hired me to come back and help run the portfolio which is now closer to 70 million in value.

Hire an experienced realtor who is knowledgeable in their vacation rental market to help you search in a rental friendly area to find the right property for your investment goals. 

@Tariq B.Option 4: Hire a PM and let them do their job. 

You hire an experienced bankruptcy attorney to file a claim against the estate for whatever amount you are owed.