We can afford to hire it out.

If you just hire the cheapest or first PMC you speak with and it turns into a bad experience, please don’t assume ALL PMC’s are bad and start trashing PMC’s in general.

What kept me from buying my first property earlier was that for me… the more I educated myself, the more I realized that there are a lot of factors that you need to consider IF you want to execute a-z process yourself (looking for properties yourself, hiring an agent, finding contractors, rehabbing, etc.).

It's usually 2 year orders here, and I was thinking about hiring a property management company to look after things while I'm out in the Texas market?

Let's say you have an assignable contract with contingencies, and you have a 10 day inspection period, do I hire a contractor or a home inspector or both? 

If these kids are walking home it would not be expensive to hire someone to look at which house they are going to, (doesn't necessarily have to be a private investigator but to be clear you would be hiring them as "security" for the property not hiring them to stalk anyone) look up the parents on the county tax assessors site, and threaten a lawsuit.

If one off, then recommend you hire a local realtor as a consultant that handles CRE, and hope it is successful.2. 

Who do you have to hire or partner with to make sure the house is ready for purchase and ready to start marketing to tenants?

I intend to I hire a contractor next time to do the rehab and will move Into the position of deal finding until I can train somebody to take on that role.

Hey that’s the special cookie recipe you need to make, and then your golden, I have similar issues, prices now are like a slot machine or like an auction, they are all complaining about supply and demand, I wonder if my contractors hire Chinese people and these people are stuck on a boat in Cali because all of the truck drivers are on strike?????