In any occasion, best of luck, hope you get yourself a great deal here!

There are other things that a PM SHOULD do for you - like inspect the properties on occasion and note any repairs, etc.  

On very rare occasions, we have gotten a property under contract sight unseen, but we have always done a walkthrough before closing.

They've discovered for themselves that most of these negative ideas don't correspond to the reality on the ground. 99.999999% of them have had nothing to do with drug cartels and have been just fine and want to go back at the first occasion or don't even want to leave.

Where ever you end up investing realize there will be a few occasions you have to jump on a plane to handle some issue.  

Any other interested party is not precluded from filing suit to enforce the restriction.I'm not suggesting a dec action is necessary every time either property is conveyed but what I have had occasion to do multiple times, is have one dec action filed, naming all parties who might have a right to enforce the restriction as defendants, serving them and giving them the opportunity to explain to the Court why the change in circumstances should not preclude their ability to enforce the restriction. 

I have a single family rental, which had updated plumbing about 20yrs ago, mostly copper, but the silly do it yourselfers have several occasions where that copper is touching steel duct work and other steel.

Met sellers on occasions.

I started bringing him some liquid favors on occasion.

The term "been there, done that", well this applies to me on several occasions.