Even new machines can experience issues, and when those issues mean that water is leaking all over your laundromat, you’re going to want to respond to that quickly.It may not be that your laundromat requires that many hours in a week of actual work, but the times your laundromat will demand your attention can often happen unexpectedly.In a typical week, we would work 7-10 hours on our laundromat, either being there physically or working remotely.

Also, note that it is hard to accurately judge an area from afar based on exterior physical characteristics.

How is physical occupancy?  

Many property managers tend to focus on physical occupancy rates, but what truly matters is the economic occupancy rates—the actual rent collected.

Digitize physical receipts for easy storage and use a consistent naming convention for easy sorting - 2024.03.25 Home Depot.Maintain proper records, such as contracts, settlement statements, and promissory notes.Additionally, you can track income and expenses consistently using software or spreadsheets.As you scale, if bookkeeping isn't fun, consider hiring a bookkeeper for a couple hundred bucks per month.

Short-term maybe short it, for the reasons you mentioned OP but this investment is a physical long-term one so you analyze it appropriately. 

Physical investing is a long term ball game, not no quick game.

The Sheriff might require a deposit or fee, but will ultimately carry out the Order for Eviction and physically remove the Tenant.Andrew Holmeswww.chicagocashflow.com

Since you're a citizen but you live and work abroad you'd still qualify mostly for second homes occupancy or investor non owner occupancy (primary is hard to claim if your job requires you to be physically next to the office as an example so an underwriter isnt going to readily believe you unless you can get HR to write you a letter to state you're remotely capable of earning this income/job duties anywhere).Hopefully that helps let me know if you have further questions into mortgage planning.

I just can't evict, only a Sheriff can physically evict.