Most people have the last 30 months. 

My experience has been that although I outline the requirements for tenancy in my properties, both brokers and PMs still send people who would qualify for most property owners but do not meet my outlined criteria; and then are SHOCKED when I reject them.  

It will be remote, but since you live there now, you probably already have connections who either already know the house or local friends to find you good people to service things as needed.  

Social engineering is everywhere, and some people are really good at making you believe what they want you to believe.

Looking forward to meeting some great people and hearing about your experiences!

My current situation is that I always flip with other people’s money.

Haggle with them to a maximum 60 day timeline) as you need time to renovate and get it ready for spring/summer market when most peoples leases are up.

Right of the get go that tells me many other people have looked at it and did not offer the asking price. 

That's where good people live, and good people make good tenants.But before you put money down on a house, I would find a quality property manager.

They make their money off of real estate agents, but real estate agents are the worst people to make money off because they are highly unreliable and in and out of the business when the market changes.Their target should be the consumer with higher levels that they can subscribe too for data, since Zillow is linked to the MLS now which makes their data somewhere more reliable.