@Allen Tracy Would you consider hiring a tax abatement lawyer?

Do you guys normally hire an agent to draft an offer or do you use some sort of online resource?

We are looking to grow our portfolio in another market, but we are on the fence about hiring a property manager for these properties or just hiring a hybrid type property manager that will just handle leasing/open houses for leasing/small physical tasks (handing a new tenant key, etc.)

Hire a good eviction attorney, period.

BP members constantly write posts saying they don't want to be bothered with day-to-day management and I found that having a PM was far worse than doing my own management because once I hired my PM I threw another 'Iron In The Fire', 'Threw In Another Wrench', or whatever you call it because now rather that dealing with tenants and resolving tenant issues in one quick move I now had to personally humble myself to dealing when a 'Fifth Wheel With Even More Moving Parts' and the decisions my PM made in regards to who they rented to and how they cleaned rentals BEFORE TENANTS MOVED IN was super scary and the damages caused by the PM resulted in costs of not one penny less than $8,000 to clean every house when a tenant moved, one house cost me $12,000 and a house in Idaho cost me $32,00 to clean and repair only the damages caused by a tenant who lived in the house for only 3 years with the exception of my costs to trim some trees.

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.

With 300 I could buy 2–3 houses at a time, hire some contractors to fix them up and get them rented. 

Hire a professional photographer for pictures, find a good cleaning team and handyman, make sure you are comfortable with whatever management platform you will be using to communicate with everyone.

I started using QBO a couple years ago and hired a bookkeeper through a gig website to set it up and kept them on to do my monthly bookkeeping as well.

That said, we could hire a management company to manage on our terms, but could not rent rental rights to them.