If rents don’t keep up, your income won’t sustain rising costs.What Drives Rent Growth?

At least that way you can still drive to the properties if you need to check in on something in person. 

Low prices enable more people to buy, limiting demand for rental properties so rents decline (in inflation-adjusted dollars).Population Growth: In areas with growing populations, demand outpaces supply, driving up property prices.

However, once we implemented technology a few years ago, even our local clients prefer to avoid driving and switched to doing business remotely.

Do you see Nike cold calling customers or driving for dollars?

Some, like the last one we got in place, used a drive by estimate of value rather than a full interior appraisal.  

You'll need to really look at yourself and understand what you do well and enjoy, at the end of the day if you enjoy what you do you'll have more drive be successful everyday. 

I can see a lot of buyers getting the keys then driving off and never paying.. foolish foolish to be advocating that.

I would be self managing the property because I know the area well, have local connections to help out if in a pickle, and could get there in a day drive if need be. 

These squatters don’t deserve my sympathy at all—one non-paying tenant even drives a BMW SUV and has never paid a dime!