Hi BP, have any of you had success with a good video camera to monitor your property?

Hours spent toward reviewing financial statements, preparing analysis for personal use, and monitoring the activity in a non-managerial capacity do not count.4.The activity is a significant participation activity (SPA), and you participated in all significant participation activities for more than 500 hours.

Townhomes typically have less land for private yard space, garages, and other benefits.Townhomes and condos are usually controlled - sometimes heavily - by a homeowner's association that sets rules, monitors them, and enforces them.

Mine can set door codes, message (or call) guests, schedule cleaners, adjust the thermostat, monitor my cameras, & call a plumber just as easily as a local PM can, for 1% of the cost. 🎤 ⬇️ 

Looked into some tech solutions like a sense electricity monitor which can help assign electric usage by unit but in CO we have some large heating bills in the winter and the furnace is gas so I'm not sure how that would work...Background about the property:6bed/4bathThree different entry points, one external door per unitOne entrance is the "main entrance" to the home, one is a door in the side yard, one is a door in the backyard.House is divided into main house with upstairs 2-bed + office unit (1), downstairs walk-out basement 2-bed unit (2) and 2-story above the garage 1-bed unit (3)State is CO, not in Denver proper but a nearby suburbThe suburb has a lot of small multifamily (2-8 units) so it's very common for the area but not necessarily as common for this particular bock which is mostly ranch-style homesPlenty of parking, so that is not an issueThe unit is zoned residential without the ability to register it as a multifamily with the city but there is commercial and mixed use/multifamily across the street so it's not super out of character for the neighborhood and I'm not worried about neighbors complaining I currently have three rentals in the Denver area - two are mid-term rental condos in Denver, one single family home in a Denver suburb I live in and house hack by renting out the top floor but will be renting as one unit single family home when I move into this next property for simplicity sake.

You aren't a hall monitor.

It's a method of monitoring to verify they maintain insurance.

I don't agree with security cameras except to monitor the entrances for security or verification of who's staying in the home.

TIA (1) Maintaining correspondence with tenants.(2) Placing ads to fill vacancies.(3) Collecting rent.(4) Checking the credit of potential tenants.(5) Visiting the properties.(6) Working on financial statements for the rental activities.(7) Arranging for eviction of tenants.(8) Visiting the properties.(9) Arranging for and supervising repairs to the property and such ...An individual's work as an investor for the individual's own use isn’t participation unless the individual is directly involved in day-to-day management or operations.Work done as an investor includes(1)studying and reviewing financial statements or reports on operations of the activity,(2)preparing or compiling summaries or analyses of the activity's finances or operations for the individual'sown use, and(3)monitoring the finances or operations of the activity [Temp.

Plus you need a monitoring ability that can handle dozens of camera systems from one central interface (assuming you are scaling larger).