Here’s a blog post with some info on the more common sites and places you can use to help set an accurate rent price:You may find this blog post helpful:How to Determine Fair Market Rent

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

I get daily listings from a realtor in OC, and he just did a blog about this very subject, exactly what I have observed.  

My reservation for Buildium is that it is a web-based system that I'm not too hot on.

you should start a blog; your hits would be infinite.

I'm new to this blog thing but have been reading all response and questions about HUBZU and I'm hoping for some input quickly!

It is entirely possible that your sellers will read your blog and determine that they are leaving money on the table, so to speak.That said, I would recommend setting up one (main) domain that is the public face of your business (www.example.com), and has the appeals and contact forms for your sellers.

Brandon Turner has done a lot of small multi-family homes and has blogged a fair amount here.

I read about them on the web, but am very skeptical.

Among other things phase two consists of adding a free report to the web site.