George us long gone and the books are out of print but occassiobal sold on eBay and Amazon.Laws, both State and Federal, are dynamic and must be monitored constantly. 

Do you want to minimize your personal time used to monitor your investments?

Either way, if you use a VA you need to have them in your systems so you can monitor their actual calls.

Supposedly planes are getting GPS?

Provide an added upsell to your properties, with monitored security camera's at the front, back, and garage doors.  

If I do end up using a 3rd part for PM, you better believe I'm going to be VERY active in monitoring what is going on, and how I'm being billed.

We don't live there, so it hard to monitor the request.We also would like to have him clean his common area.

Yes,, that is a risk for sure... however given where the property is unless Aunt Thelma has a big 4X4 and can read quad maps and GPS not to worried about anyone actually finding the property :)

Has anyone tried the GPS tracking module that you put hidden in the A/C unit?

If you did it yourself, you'd have to pay for the gas and if you hired a snow removal service their fee would have the gas used included... so the other options would have you paying for it as well.If you do pay for it, just monitor it to make sure the gas isn't being used up "mysteriously" fast.