If it is via a hub/gateway connected to the Internet, you can probably find an outfit to read them and bill (since they can be anywhere).If your meters have a remote reading that requires a reader at the curb/outside the building,  you can acquire your own reader and bill yourself ... probably not cost effective for a duplex, unless you plan to sub-meter more buildings.Alternatively, you can manually read them yourself and bill your tenants.

Why own a main hub and 30 branch offices, when you just have those people work from home and save all the overhead. 

I'll start,  I was helping family to hunt down a good property in Austin Texas, SFR, close to the tech hubs, got pre-approved and started searching.

Hubs 3 refinanced the house about ten times for full cash out, and bounced after the last one...ten years or so ago.Oh the house was built on a community golf course that has failed four times, and been bought and failed again three.

It's growing at a fast rate and is becoming a new hub for innovation and start ups.  

Some are very archaic, like the use of hub and spigot cast iron piping with lead and oakum joints in waste and vent systems.

But I think the issue you'll face the most is that if it's a "well known" drug distribution hub you'll probably have people randomly dropping by "asking for _____".

I am assuming most of the jobs are near the indianapolis main hub but I am not sure.  

Assuming we hit another bubble of similar magnitude, I'm likely to lose little to nothing, even in the wake of a correction and that it never corrects back (which seems supremely unlikely in such an urban hub like Boston).

Seattle is  becoming the hub of so many areas of Technology - Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Drones to name a few.