Depending on the size of the facility you may be able to operate it as an unmanned facility using technology.

When evaluating property management companies, it's very important to consider the technology they're using. 

PLEASE BE SPECIFIC, TO ENCOURAGE DISCUSSION WITH OTHER BPers I AM DISCOURAGING GENERAL COMPLAINTS PLEASE ADDRESS A TOPIC, A MOMENT OR PROCESS THAT YOU THINK TECHNOLOGY OR A REVISION IN POLICY OR THE WAY THINGS ARE DONE IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD COULD BE BETTER SERVED.

I did their paid advertising for Zillow rental manager once, and you can tell that their internal technologies are jacked up, and their monetization practices are sneaky.

Technology advancements such as email, phone calls, skype has enabled communication with a remote CPA to be seamless.

I think that technology is absolutely an equalizer, as others have noted, or it can be.

I'm careful with my screening and end up with a high percentage of good kids, but it helps that I'm mostly involved with technology school kids (Oregon Institute of Technology).

In the Results link click on your address where there are various tabs and click on Neighborhood Sales.If you have a hard time with technology, you can always ask friends or family members to help you navigate the web to do some research about property values in your area.If you do find yourself entertaining an offer from an unsolicited investor: Ask to obtain, and keep, a list of the comparable property sales in your neighborhood the investor used to come up with their purchase price offer.Always keep someone else in the loop – your children, good friends, or someone you trust.Always know that you can seek legal advice – in the end, it might be worth the money you spend on a consultation with an attorney.Review the contract closely to see if it is assignable.

And then the appraiser mixes that all into a recipe to come up with a value (which magically equals the contract price in most cases but that's a different debate for a different day...).I don't work in real estate like you guys so maybe it's the fact that I work with highly educated people in technology (I'm not judging or assuming who you typically interact with - just classifying who I interact with to give a perspective).

The technology ecosystem around STRs can be broken up into at least 4 primary segments:1.