Using a rental agency for out of state property

[Don Shore]

Hello everyone this is my first post and I am a newbie to real estate. My question is this-I will be working in ND in the oil boom. I want to eventually move to TX and own properties there. I will not have time to deal with any of the things that can come up with rental property. Should I hire a rental agency to handle the property? The only other alternative I can see is saving money to buy properties years from now but that would mean the prices would be up and I wouldn't get what I could get now.