If you can afford to wait until you find a tenant that fits your standards, then by all means. speaking from the little experience that I due have.

.-10% management fee is pretty standard in the market, and many managers have a minimum price per unit threshold that this may not meet so you may even be paying more.  

@Anthony VargasFor vacant insuranceI currently use Arcana and if you connect with a REIA group that is a part of National REIA they have some of the best prices ever.I have also used APIA and found them to be the easiest to work with, despite arcana being 100 percent auto,ate and instant access once set up.Also in the game is NREIGAll insure nationally.Your local REIA group might have standard national insurance companies that broker a few other products for your vacant houses.

Ok so I want to give a little back ground about my before I get into the topic I've been a home repair man since 18 I'm 30 now an I've always work for property management company so i know how it runs an  Operates I've been on 24 maintenance on call for student housing, retirement home an standard rental property now I'm getting into my own rental property's last year I brought a property for 130k fha  an an got the value up to 180k I refinance that fha to an conventional loan so now I'm looking for a 2 or 4 plex with an fha already have offers in just waiting to hear back an I'm also thinking of using my a line of credit from the first property to put down on a owner financing single family am I moving in the right direction or should I change things up plz let me know what you all think I'm working out of Norfolk va 

The standard form realtor's contract calls for it.

If there are any investors in the area, I live on the island side, I would love to network, even offer to work part time as an intern to gain experience, join network groups to meet other investors.

@mark possoff,This is pretty standard with regards to row homes. 

I have had to send 4 disengagement letters (the same number of tenants we have have had to evict in the last year where we placed the tenants) to owners in the last year because they didn’t want to follow our guidelines or they didn’t want pay their bills or keep there property up to safety standards or they wanted to complain about everything (I’m sorry but we will not manage for slumlords) if you are a property manager don’t put up with toxic owners just as much as you wouldn’t put up with toxic tenants.

Is there a way to get financing for international investors?

However, I have been well versed enough to battle back with some sort of internal rule I had created in my goals to help mitigate or manage all those issues.