Make sure you utilize the services of a property management company who listens to your needs, and does not just treat you as another 'listing' to their portfolio. Many of our current clients have left their previous property management company due to a lack of communication once the 'honeymoon' period was over. In fact, a lack of communication was their biggest pain point, and this in turn led them to frustration, (not to mention their time lost in trying to sort things out themselves)!
For us, that continued strong, same day communication throughout the entire working relationship, is an essential formula to ensure that both owners and tenants alike are happy.
And we know that when tenants are happy, they tend to stay longer at the property and treat it as if were one of their own - #win/win