You'll have 24/7 access to the house (you'll be lining in it) and you can see how others are treating your property.

The pub was failing badly I was worn out.

At some point you just have to stand your ground, and I firmly believe that we have treated her beyond fairly and the deductions from her deposit are justified and supported.  

We understand that this partnership will end some day whether we sell or just move on to other things...and we want to make sure we end with a 'great' note...not bad.  

They tend to need to be convinced more that you can return their money along with interest.I use hard money lenders on almost all of my property acquisitions because they are able to lend quickly and they put another set of eyes on the property which can be helpful from getting into a bad deal.

And makes sense after reading your response that active investment (as I was contemplating) would be treated differently from a tax perspective.. 

I don't have any personal references but you can go to www.narpm.org and search their directory.If you make a mistake and hire a bad Property Manager, it can ruin you for life.

The comps show the market value is about 45 to 52KIt is just in a bad city.

You want to use postcards first since they are cheaper and some may bounce so you can remove the bad ones off your list and skip-trace those so you do not waste money mailing to bad addresses.

I keep looking at SFH which is what I'm used to flipping, but they keep coming in quirky or on bad streets or something.