For example, my lease has the following clause in it:NEIGHBORHOOD CONDITIONS: Tenant is advised to satisfy him or herself as to neighborhood or area conditions, including schools, proximity and adequacy of law enforcement, crime statistics, proximity of registered felons or offenders, fire protection, other governmental services, availability, adequacy and cost of any speed-wired, wireless internet connections or other telecommunications or other technology services and installations, proximity to commercial, industrial or agricultural activities, existing and proposed transportation, construction and development that may affect noise, view, or traffic, airport noise, noise or odor from any source, wild and domestic animals, other nuisances, hazards, or circumstances, cemeteries, facilities and condition of common areas, conditions and influences of significance to certain cultures and/or religions, and personal needs, requirements and preferences of Tenant.

Upgrade technology, ring, nest, Yale and technology for managing.

I don't use it to find deals because cold calling is not a great use of time with so much technology on our hands to find motivated sellers.

I get ideas and tricks from the shows.Many people get into markets to follow the crowd when they should be exiting as the old wise investors are doing.For example, do you recall the technology hype days in the stock market in the late 1990s.

Being close to your property is overrated sure it's nice to be able to drive by but with today's technology and a kick *** property manager you can get pictures and even videos of your property in real time.

Also if a business is using Apfolio or some equivalent then they are using the best technology and the field is level - this is not the 1990s where you needed to pay a lot for a custom IT solution. 

Strongly suggest you look at security plug ins first.Some that I just learned about this week while at RETSO, the real estate technology conference in Atlanta that I will be investigating:WP TouchZemantainbound writerdashterCustom post type UIAlso very important that BEFORE you install plug in that you check how many times it has been downloaded, does it work with your version of WP, how is it rated, how recently was it updated.

With the way technology is now I have had more productive meetings with my out of state guy than I ever did face to face at home.

No more dealing with that issue ever again.Brandon GadishLandlord Technology LLC

Building costs have also disproportionately skyrocked for these same reasons and others which is counter-intuitive as usually increased productivity and advancing technology lowers cost over time-  apparently not in construction.