Hello Everyone. I am an out of state investor from California currently in the Pennsylvania market (Westmoreland county). I spend my day analyzing dozens of long term buy and hold multi-family rental properties availa...

In both of those cases if you’ve never done it sometimes it’s just easier to ask the secretary or whoever you talk to and ask who does a lot of them and hire them to do the application for you.

Hiring a bookkeeper was a game-changer for us and I highly recommend it to other investors who don't have one.

However as noted above you can hire 5 different surveyors to do the same job and you will have 5 monuments within inches of each other it is very common that survey's don't align If this is a resi lot where a fence a a few inchs one way or the other does not matter not worth all the expense to fight over a tiny amount of land just come to an agreement with the neighbor and move on..  

But that house had no renovations, and I knew the buyers were hiring architects to undergo a major renovation.  

Perhaps the HOA has a list of preferred/recommended contractors though.3) Usually HOA's dont care what you do inside your unit as long as it doesn't affect the structure.Given your cell phone issues, you probably should just hire a PMC to make sure you don't get blindsided by an emergency.

But I will continue as a Realtor for the next few years in both residential and multifamily.Of late I have hired a great Bookkeeper, and a Techy guy for most things IT.I have experience in all types construction except high-rise.

This is pretty vague and a bit impractical, even contradictory.If you hire a doctor to do a procedure, you could be technically breaking the, "not what will be done and how it will be done" part if you discuss the procedure with the doctor and give them ANY feedback on what you want done!

Bookkeepers vary in stature quite a bit and it's good to ask a comprehensive list of questions when interviewing a Bookkeeper for hire to see what their background is, if they have experience in your specific industry, what certifications they have, etc.

Once you are able to make the property a rental, hire a property manager to handle rent collection, repairs etc.