And that means your investment becomes more valuable over time.BiggerPockets (of course) is an invaluable resource in connecting to local investors and professionals, who can tell you a lot more about the market (local blogs, Cromford type reports, etc.).You'd be amazed what you can learn by reading the local news.

's situation, it would be best to find a professional to handle your handyman and lawn care work.

Their involvement will mean the bottom line of what they get from the profit according to a professional appraisal after the repair/rehab or a resale to someone else. 

That's why such people called "professional Tenants"

Did you hire an engineer/professional to look at this and give you recommendations or did you go straight to a foundation company?

This will keep you organized, and professional in the eyes of your tenant(s). 

There are others, but this is definitely the simplest.This would be one of the most passive options - you would give up a bit of your return in exchange for professionally rehabbed, managed props (though you still shouldn't be paying more than market for Turnkey) but you would have one company to vet per market, one team to build a relationship with, so it's a trade-off.

And as quite a few heavy hitter bloggers here never get tired pointing out is that their time spent here comes back 10 X in terms of new and very fitting relationships.Yes, it takes time.

Buildium, Rent Manager, Appfolio and Propertyware are the big 4 for professional PMs.

Just be sure you can point to your history or correspondence with your professionals.