No JD, you have not shattered our dreams, we appreciate all advice from people who know more about these things than us
I hope that you don't mean that all of the condo managements are corrupt though ... surely there must be some out there that you can trust to handle a few things for you?? IE even if we do our own marketing and get our own renters, would we not still need them to handle the check-in, etc when the renters arrive? At some point you need to trust somebody to get the little details done????
Like we said originally, we are not looking to make a huge profit from owning this condo, we would just like to break even for a few years until we have more time to spend there ourselves ... maybe in 10 years sell it for more than we paid in order to get a more private place to "semi retire" to ... keep in mind we are quite young (late 20's) so this is hopefully the first step in a long term plan of early retirement!!!