Our Top Tips for Finding & Vetting A Good Property Manager

Tom, Michael and Emil continue our series on how to source a powerful real estate team. In this episode, we discuss the property manager. --- Transcript   Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of The Remote Real Estate Investor. My name is Emil Shour, and I'm joined by my co-host,   Tom: Tom Schneider   Michael: And Michael album.   Emil: And in today's episode, we're going to be continuing our series on finding and vetting different people on your real estate investing team. So last couple episodes, we've covered insurance carrier and lender and then in today's episode, we're going to cover the property manager. So let's get to it.   Theme Song   Emil: Alright guys, in the last episode, we gave a quick shout out before we got into the episode and want to do that again. Give people shout outs for leaving us reviews. So this last one came from IanC11. Love the pod great for someone who is new to real estate investing combos and personal experiences are super insightful, and the info is easily digestible. Thanks, Ian. Appreciate it. Man.   Tom: We are almost at our 100th review on Apple podcasts, which is pretty awesome. And I think for the person who hits, who writes the 100th review, what do you think Emil? Some sort of like,   Emil: What if now nobody wants to write a review? Because they're waiting to get to 100?   Michael: They're waiting?   Tom: Yeah, I think we sent him a shirt, a roof stock Academy shirt and books done. approved, budget approved.   Emil: How about the next 10 reviews? So anyone from 94 to 104? will pick one person and send them that cool pack you mentioned?   Tom: Well, maybe it's at 98, 95. There's a term for this type of promotion. It's we could be at 100. I don't know we could be right below good reason to write the promotion. We'll do it for two people.   Emil: Two people. There you go. Alright, next 10 reviews, we're going to randomly choose two people and send you some cool stuff. Okay, so we're talking about the property manager. This episode, we're going to follow the same format that we have been, which is a three part question series. So the first part is, when in the process, should we be finding our property manager? When in our real estate acquisition process? How do you source a property manager? And what are some good vetting questions to ask them to make sure you're finding the right property management partner? So let's kick it off with when in the process? Should a new real estate investor start looking for a property manager? What do you guys think? When have you guys started looking for your pm in the process,   Tom: I would say you can't do it early enough. Because it you know, if you take one thing from this episode, and I've probably repeated this a couple of times, is you can bring, especially as a remote investor, leverage that property manager as local boots on the ground. And you can begin the interview process by adding them as a data point within your acquisitions process. So let's say I'm looking to buy a house in Columbus, Ohio, or Atlanta or Indianapolis, you know, in talking to property managers, I can get their feedback on properties that I'm looking at and neighborhoods, it's a really, a secret sauce to a remote investor is bringing in that local property manager early and often. So I would say as early as possible, what you don't want to happen is in a transaction, you know, you've found a great property you like it fits, checks off all the boxes you're looking for. And then like last second scrambling to find a property manager, you're not going to make as good of a decision. And plus, you're wasting that opportunity to use that property manager as part of your acquisitions team. So early and early. Yes, early.   Michael: I agree with you, Tom 150%. I think you, you nailed it. And they can be your eyes and ears, they can be adult, they should be involved in the due diligence process, they can give you insights into markets and sub markets and streets wh