I would understand not having a handyman doing the installation but can there be an actual difference between professional companies doing the work?

Your realtor should provide these stats based on actual rent not based your estimate.

And until you have a decent sized portfolio its actually not very hard to do the management yourself.

Actually, these days I run three hedge funds and so I have gone away from partnering on specific deals. 

Do not cut any corners to make something look better than it actually does.  

I found out that the pictures don't match the actual property but the stats match the real property.

@Kreighton Reed @Jai Deva I am actually doing this exact thing right now.

For what it's worth I've lived in my house for 35+ years and have taken an actual bath (prefer a shower) maybe 5 times in all those years.Gail

Paying down the principal will actually reduce your monthly cash flow. 2.

I've tried convincing my wife to do Airbnb, to offset the $15-$25k annually that we would be paying for the condo, but she wants this place to be solely our home.Looking for any creative ideas from this community.. its hard for me to justify paying that much unless we're actually living there for a majority of the year