WiFi/Internet-enabled thermostats, door locks, security cameras.

Control of your Wi-Fi enables the landlord to create a direct audio and/or video intercom from your cell phone to any location on the property (similar to or with a ring doorbell).

Doing this will help reinforce what you learn and enable you to make better decisions in the future, and make those decisions quicker. 

Monitoring can be done and changes can be made online, or on smartphones.Landlord control of property Wi-Fi, enables monitoring of smoking, https://www.freshairsensor.com/products/ andhttp://www.smokersensor.com/   You can receive automatic notice when an unusual number of people are on the property (https://www.partysquasher.com ).

Hello, everyone on Bigger Pockets! I'm completely new to the real estate scene, looking from the outside and trying to figure out how to get started with limited to no funds. I do have time on my hands and an eagernes...

They give money to people with their hands out because they truly want to help but it's just as likely to enable the individual.

With the duplex option, I would at least hope to have the the tenant cover the majority of the mortgage payment, enabling me to save enough during the time living in the duplex to invest in another property, move out to that property, and have an income producing property that cash flows at the end of the day.

If it has fancy electronic controls, see if there's an "enable icemaker" buried in the menus somewhere.On the back of the refrigerator, the spot where you connect the water line from the house is usually one side of the solenoid valve that lets water into the icemaker. 

Being able to take the tasks that need to be done and handing it off enables you to now free up your time. 

That would enable him to disappear and then you're stuck trying to get rent from the wife that clearly can't afford it.I would have a heart-to-heart with her and encourage her to terminate and move out.