While the property itself was a decent investment in and of itself, I simply felt there were better returns in another asset class at this time.

If your goal is to simply take over a property that has a VA loan, you just start making the payments without bothering the lender. 

In this plan, I've noticed that when executing steps, a few things stop me, and below I'm going to post these questions regardless of answers I may already have, simply because I want the chance to hear from YOU about them!

The battery & motor simply engage the knob for the user to manually open or close the lock.

I don't have it replace common sense or creativity but simply have it do the things im already doing 10X faster! 

You clearly don’t understand what a motivated seller is.From your writing, it’s evident you believe a motivated seller is simply someone who wants to, needs to or has to sell their house (hence your foreclosure example).The truth?

Our standard language states:In the event that Tenants decide they no longer want to live together, ___________ will be considered the primary Tenant to make decisions about modifying or terminating tenancy.

I was in this program, simply for the "boots on the ground" @3k/month in Philly to test out two deals there.

It is common and customary acrossa almost all rentals except some A class office to pay your share of utilities.Now you can make whatever arangment you'd like and work it out however you want with your tenant but if you are going to "share costs" I'd suggest keeping the utilities in your name, and then "back billing" the tenants for that share of their usage, but again thats a lot of work for really no gain in my book.My recommendation would be to simply have the tenants pay all utilities. 

Find your own set of tradesmen and you can simply contact them directly when future repair issues arise.