In addition, craigslist no longer appears to monitor repeat ads as before so annoyingly similar ads for the same apartment (for example) will appear 10 or 12 times each day.  

This gets pretty involved with fire alarm and electrical connections to monitor and close the damper in the event of a fire.

I have studied by personally driving through the neighborhoods, noting investor activity, monitoring the patterns and numbers of foreclosure, monitoring the prices/comps, monitoring county auditor records, and having good chats with my mortgage broker friend who also has bought in the area.I am so confident that buying and holding in this area could turn out to be quite profitable in the future.  

This will enable you to monitor/ prevent temperature extremes in buildings especially if you don't make them pay for utilities. - I have other thoughts on this that I actually did a few day ago so if you want to check that out here is theLastly @Kurt G. in order to do the wifi as a service that you speak about you would pretty much just need to install a more robust network than Comcast, etc gives you and assign each apartment their own SSID.

Also, it would help if you put out a few signs saying the area is monitored, like "smile, you're on camera." 

They are paid to screen tenants and monitor the property....that means going to take a look every so often.

Meanwhile, if you just want to monitor for yourself, this appears very cool, and incredibly easy install. 

This is the biggest difference between eRentPayment and Rentalutions.Beyond how our payments are structured, there are other security measures that we take to ensure security:- all personally identifiable information and payment account information is automatically encrypted before it hits our servers using 256-bit encryption- our servers are automatically monitored 24/7/365 to detect for vulnerabilities and automatically block suspicious trafficOur security setup has been rigorously tested by several of our major partners including TransUnion and State Farm.

I did some leg work driving for dollars, watching the MLS via Zillow, monitoring Auction.com, and getting educated on BiggerPockets.

I definitely plan to continue to monitor the market closely while analyzing deals for multiple strategies.