One more thing, banks monitoring time is normally one year.

Connecting with a good property manager does not eliminate the work you must do but it should be easier for an owner to monitor a property manager than monitoring tenants.

Is there a spreadsheet you use to monitor your current portfolio's performance?

Once upon a time, ranking a site was little more effort than buying a bunch of cheap links, monitoring their velocity, and making sure that you hit certain percentages of different types of links.

You then wonder what they are afraid of that they chose to monitor others posts.

my monitoring functions are in op  how do you go about getting them to work?

I monitor and hire subs to do the work. 

The large commercial projects in the pipeline are huge and large new projects being announced regularly so we should see this get back to normal or better in 12 - 24 months.I don't monitor the outlying counties as much, but they still look depressed.  

The only problem is that how will I ever monitor the water and electrical usages of letting her use the washer dryer?

Nothing wrong with monitoring that, but it's not the 'metric' we quote as cash-on-cash.