But I'd *love* to hear thoughts on remote door unlocking technology, like via apps and such.

I spent 15 years in the technology industry before I was lucky enough (in my opinion, people under-estimate the role of luck when it comes to success) to be able to "retire" from that industry; in that time I had 2 mentors, and I owe much of my career and business success to them.

We utilize various forms of technology to collaborate seamlessly with our clients and rarely have issues.If you are set on using someone local, search the BP forums for investors local to you and reach out to ask for a referral.

I am 100% technologically capable of putting together a very large piece of education (all found free here on BP and other areas) that could offer a very comprehensive fundamental package to people. 

I'm sure there were more than a few newbie senators that got taken on a fourplex in Jericho because they thought that prices were too high in Rome :)This time it is no different, and technology and tools can only take you so far as a newbie without scale.

I do think there are lot of innovations that are coming here, especially with the panel technology, battery storage, power delivery etc, where you could find ingenious ways to save costs and pass some of those cost savings to the tenant.

Automation, technology, the net, robotics, now Artificial Intelligence are taking jobs away at a rapid pace.

Technology is major for us; we're early adopters of new devices and happy to discuss and advise peers about technology.

Some of us utilize technology to collaborate with our clients al over the globe.Going non local will expose you to a wider pool of expertise.

Maintaining good relationships with a handful of contractors and using technology like digital answering services (Google Voice), rent collection web sites, etc give us the right balance of knowing what is happening to our properties but minimizing the disruption to all of our full-time jobs.For us, there are two critical periods: one is during the renovation phase, especially if tenants are in the property.