It may sound nice to pay a 6% management fee but the extra fees can add up to be more than the other company that charges 10% with no additional fees.

Think about teaming up with a list broker to find the best target audience for your campaign.

Going this route over high closing costs would save you more money as long as the work can be done in reasonable amount of time.

nothing pointed at you personally but there has been build to rent projects were investors had to put up 50k non refundable and never got their house built.. so I can see putting it in escrow and releasing it upon closing for sure.. thats what i personally do with my new builds although since we average 25 to 75k of upgrades per house buyers have to stroke non refundable checks directly to us for those items.

I can continually save up enough for another down payment through my W-2 income, but the time elapsed kind of drives me nuts. 

We may have a FC coming up in Coronado - it will go for prob close to $3M. 

Can I pay the management company I set up a mgmt fee?

Additionally, once micron (a large microchip processing plant) is up and running (construction is underway) there are expected to be nearly 50,000 additional jobs created in the immediate areas.

Does it have to be a specific reason to allow them to break the agreed rental contract or it only applies to long term lease? 

We in the Tampa area are up 15% YoY and you can still cashflow at current interest rates/ADR's.