In the current environment, don’t even consider renting a home or condo unless it is from a respectable property management company. The weak hand neg-am/IO holders don’t want to use management companies because they can’t afford to pay the management fee. Good landlords (usually folks with actual wealth, not these California Trump wannabees) don’t have time to mess with maintaining their properties and turn them over to experienced property managers. They understand that the fee is just the cost of doing business. I have never, and will never rent from an individual. Just my $0.02. Let these weak hand neg-am/IO holders rot. If you rent from them you’re enabling them to keep up the charade that much longer, thus prolonging all of our misery.