Either way your friend will need to do a lot of due diligence to ensure he chooses partners he can trust to be around for the long haul, but my point is that he doesn't *have* to live in the market he invests in.

Once we rented a U-Haul truck, loaded it and drove it to the tenant's next destination to get the tenant out on time.

Whether you DIY (find your own agent, contractor, property manager and then manage them from afar) or go the turnkey route (one company does everything), you need to make sure the people you choose are going to be there for the long-haul.

That is why it makes sense for no additional labor pay.Today was our first day, we hauled all sellers furniture/ leftovers to donations or to the local transfer station.

You can't throw it in dumpster unfortunately.You can bag it up to make it easier to carry outside.The constable has to stay there until house is emtied out so you need to have a crew their to carry out the stuff.Then everyone will come pick through it and make a mess.Then you have to haul off the junk and clean up all the debris.

I don't want to haul that around with me that's for sure.How can I use my location independence to accelerate my journey to financial independence?

I did mobiles, looked into self-storage, vacant commercial property and re-purposing old white elephants (old warehouses) or motels or toys r us's or any number of failed brick and mortar structures with motivated sellers. 

It's a little bit of a haul for me coming from Chester County...   

If they have lots of "toys" (RV, multiple cars, dune buggy, boat, lots of vacations they couldn't afford - then I'm not so interested.) 

With that said I don’t plan to live here for the long haul.