If you can get some good references, or perhaps know someone who can be the "handyman" you can save yourself a lot of grief.

Whilke not all handymen can do every job, they usually are pretty well connected enough to get things done.

Maybe someone you had do work fo ryo ubefore.

Like Jim and Kerry said, you must be notified by the tenant of any problems and you should be the one to authorize any repairs.

Additionally, any mangement company will bill you top dollar for every repair. That's another way they make money. You have no idea what the actual repair cost them thru their contractors.

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