Could you use technology to manage your own properties with relatively low risk?

Leverage using technology (not people) first --- Find ways to leverage your time using programs and systems instead of people.

I would avoid anything with fancy Wifi or Bluetooth technology because that just adds complexity that is likely to confuse people or break down.

This would lead to a shift in the types of jobs available, with the demand for manual labor jobs decreasing while the demand for jobs in fields such as technology and data analysis increasing.These are stories that real estate investors need to stay on top of, with so many investors serving ‘workforce housing’, these jobs could see drastic changes in the next decade.

In this day and age with all the technological advances out-of-state investment has become so much more simplistic and easily manageable.

If you have a larger portfolio and utilize vendors who need access and like the power of accounting reports, then consider Buildium, Yardi, Appfolio.As for consumer software, we're all essentially based off the same affiliate partners and technology. 

With available technology today, the MLS doesn't seem to have nearly the weight that it used to... but the access fees remain high.On the buyer/investor side - Do agents get "early access" to property listings? 

Or varying work experience with changing technologies.  

We haven't done that tho...we hired outsiders to do the big (technology) and the small (building houses).

If we want to keep the technological advance that we enjoy which keep people alive longer, we need the entrepreneurship and the free market that comes with it, The flip side of it is that it comes with costs that fewer and fewer people can afford enjoying those advances.