That forum should have good good local people who monitor it. 

If that's the case, I'm not sure you want to be involved with that either.If they were running a consulting business or something not requiring people to come to the property, I'd be totally OK with that (that's like working from home), but you will have children coming, the health department for food, and a lot of other people you may not want monitoring your property.

How do you monitor or manage this process?

Likewise you could monitor the situation and cover those shorts when oil co's start to take corrective action (like shutting down drilling rigs like they have been announcing over the last 10 days).

SDG&E is currently working on a plan to upgrade all of its readers to a digital network it can monitor remotely, but for now your meter must remain accessible to the gas man.As a locksmith I can attest first hand to the costly alterations owners and managers have had to implement due to these unfamiliar requirements.

I just monitor the oil bills and keep an eye out for open windows in the spring and window A/Cs in the fall.

You will have to monitor how much megabytes in data transfer that you use while uploading your videos to the cloud. 

They are only used for drains and typically leaks in drains start very small and if monitored closely are less likely to cause major damage than a supply line.

Then determine how many cases you wish to monitor.

The BofA's, Chase's and other Too Big's of the world have some pretty sophisticated systems in place to monitor and manage REO.