So do you monitor it yourself?

I closely monitor messages and email in case something serious comes up.

Although I would not expect you to pay for compaction testing/verification, I would make it a point to monitor the backfilling operations and direct the excavator to recompact the soils in to 6 to 8 inch lifts coming back up.

Lots of options on the market now for remote monitoring and tracking, though not sure how accurate they are versus traditional sub metering.

In an ideal situation, you will monitor the cracks over a period of time to determine if active movement is happening or not.

We basically hire and monitor the contracts and progress of local contractors to do work for the base.

Start with the MLS, but get use to having MLS on monitor one, and your chosen title company's title lookup website on monitor two, and of course google on monitor number three to see what "123 Main LLC" is and if that owner of public record is married to someone with a criminal history. 

Even local courts may have local rules.Generally, legal publication such as "Notice of Petition" to creditors and other potential claimants will not provide you sufficient actionable information to market and merely notifies others that a Decedent's estate is being probated.You can monitor obits and research if decedent owned property.You can use the legal pubs to pull indivisible files at the courthouse as well as those  that did not require legal publication.Alternatively, you can pay a researcher (whom you are likely to find at the courthouse records researching files) and pay them to collect data to your specifications. 

Even when it's occupied, you are relying on a tenant to monitor this for you.  

If you are not onsite to monitor the contractor - you need a "boots on the ground" project manager;4.