Avoid strong rent-control cities like Oakland, Berkeley, San Leandro, Concord, Fremont, Union City, Martinez, Antioch, and others.  

You should not have to do anythingThe onsite manager shows and rents apartments, oversees third party vendors like, maintenance, landscaper, pest control, pool.

Note, as an experienced landlord I was able to get control of the tenant situation with little issue, raise rent and have had no real issues with the tenant since.

They are emotional-based transactions, NOT investor numbers-based.Result, +95% of agents bring investors worthless lists of properties.Trying to find the -5% of agents that know how to work with investors has these challenges:1) Finding them2) Vetting them3) Getting them to do business with you!

I have partial ownership of an apartment complex in the Bay Area so there's rent control which limits cash flow but it's still performing well. 

None of these things are out of your control, how are YOU going to make a good deal?

Emphasize that this is for both noise control and to prevent damage to the property.

Sometimes finding small, local partners to do your own thing and do it your way and under your control can be a great way to go that has more accountability built in.

You never let things like this take control, everything needs to be contractual with recourse if not followed.

Also, I would just consider the crypto as unreachable as well - the whole point of crypto currency is that it's supposed to be protected from fraud, seizure, third party control, etc, for whomever holds the keys.