So no shame or harm in it!

It can be helpful or harmful, depending on how it is used.

First do no harm, or as little harm as possible.

It's a tool that can help wonders, or harm you.

If not, absolutely no harm there I think anyone can succeed without it.

There's no harm asking around, using the internet and your connections etc. to help them out.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

As crazy as this sounds you can exit faster and with less harm than leaving the military(lol).I think there are only 3 people in the WORLD who became Billionaires working for someone else(versus owning/selling/starting a company or being born with a Billion) up until 2010ish.  

From 1 TIM 6:9-10:Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Nothing can be considered legitimate as far as tenants are concerned and it always comes back to harm the landlord.