So we get a quote from Stanley Steemer, let them know we will be having them professionally deodorized.

Hi Everyone, I’m a Boston based professional.

So we get a quote from Stanley Steemer, let them know we will be having them professionally deodorized.

If you work in a professional manner, the tenants will believe you.  

I am just getting started in investing; literally just today I had a phone call hiring my legal/accounting team!

Otherwise, if you plan to hire a property management company, I work for a full service management company and I'd love to help you out there as well. 

Whether you should do so will depend on the amount of realty transfer tax you need to pay since it's not cheap to hire an attorney to handle that process for you.  

Was he licensed and insured when you hired him? 

The way I see it is if the property taxes are so high to keep from getting ahead with your rental it doesn't pay much to keep it or look at that area to buy.We had a inner city 6 plex,, our taxes jumped from 5400 a year to 6800 ... on a 6 unit building this was after we had contested the tax hike that's 133.00 per apt per year or 95.00 bucks a month just for taxes.per unit.. we contested the increase hired a appraiser had a meet and look at with the city appraiser.. it knocked it down for a while but went right back up a year later.. 

Plus you keep the low prop 13 protected tax base, and you'll be dealing with the best professional tenant base all along.