It easily takes 60 days or more for last invoices (for work done while they were managing) to be received and paid, finalize their accounting, close the month end reports and provide your final reports, and any remaining balance due, to you.

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

Besides just cleaning between guests, we have a once-a-month deep clean that covers air filters, baseboards, ceiling fan blades, etc.

Ask him when the last time was he changed the filters on the furnace. 

Im in New England so we have winter atm - which slows down the market anyways - but our blackout dates for securing renters easily for landlords is Thanksgiving until February when taxes start.

Chicago does not allow you to build new 2-4 unit rentals on the north side (not easily or profitibly atleast) and each year more and more 2-4 units are torn down/gutted into single families making that supply lower and lower by the year. 

Asset protection is also irrelevant because LP shares are illiquid and cannot be easily separated from their owners. 

If it's in an upscale community, you can easily get up to $2000 per month (for just a 1 or 2 bedroom).

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

Not rocket science, but a whole house can easily eat up most of a day.I see these as a way to spruce up a perfectly fine just ugly outlet (usually dirty or almond colored), not any way to cover over a "bad" or dangerous outlet.With that said, not sure I would want to put my name on them as any final product.