You also won’t have to worry about any fees or closing costs.

The time frames of 45 days for identification of replacement(s) and the 180 days to close are hard and fast.

As a flipper, you are trying to control your costs to maximize your return on each deal.

However, finding these properties at the right price is close to impossible.

Understand the fees involved and calculate the total cost for an entire year of management so you can compare the different managers.

For things like cleaning, painting, etc; she should be hiring people to do that (or if she wants to then contract herself) and bill you those at cost. 

Depending on the nature of what needs done, *in general* a good contractor will cost you about the same thing as you acting as the GC yourself because they get better pricing from subs than you will get, and pocket the difference as profit.

It needs to be easy to understand, flexible, and cost appropriate for a small start up.

Builder costs went up.

AND textured for $2,000.Drywall guys like to tell you that texture costs more, but keep in mind that it actually costs them LESS to provide texture.