You'll need to get WIFI in the home or a hotspot for monitoring.   

You know how I feel about experts… but consensus thinking is helpful to monitor for us Skeptics.

For now, we will wait and monitor the market in the area. 

One day I texted the notice to his OLD number that he doesn't monitor much apparently.

I would suggest with property management that you only need to monitor your owner portal.

I recently ran into this question with my remote multi-family property so want to see whether people have any thoughts or what should be normal practice.I hired a local 3rd party property management company to help me monitor operations, manage payrolls, and handle issues for my remote multi-family property.

But I also don't want the responsibility of paying for monthly monitoring/wifi, etc or tenants wanting to look at video, etc. 

I came across this article about the recent Salt Lake City Council budget amendment that includes money for the city to monitor STRs via some type of software.

You can have a tool that monitors the same data sources as you do today, but use the newest techniques in engineering to automatically extract names, addresses and cross reference that information with county databases before streaming that information to your CRM. 

If you can come to agreement on how and when things will be done, you give him a chance to continue but you monitor progress closely.