Fortunately, they should and usually do have local contractors in the area that they turn to for maintenance. 

Also remember to check your local laws.  

@Sanjeev Advani I’m not saying they’re all like this but since Circle K bought 3 local convenience stores they have never been able to staff them properly or maintain employees.

When the local/state government turns on you and you need to bail on your market. 

If you can house hack a duplex / triplex / quad locally, I highly suggest it.

I think there's still a lot of room in the country to do this successfully and where the locals can also benefit.

Local market economic conditions. 

Some investor say well better to go for 15-30%+ uncapped returns and lose it a minority of the time than to only make 10-13% and lose anyway with this latest black swan event.

But you’ll want to do a little digging and maybe talk to a local lender who’s dealt with ground leases before, from what I’ve heard.On the tax front, if you have the benefits and burdens of ownership for the structures, depreciation might still be on the table.

EXAMPLE: a local HC has a single comcast email address for their entire office - mysteriously, they seem to be always losing emails and asking us to resend multiple times.The good news is they finally increased their max rental amounts a few years ago, so they are now more competitive.