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.  

Find a property that is need of repairs and build in a "repair allowance" into our loan,  make repairs, add basic new "smart" gadgets to market them as "smart" apartments, and increase rent.

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.

Technology centers and education that rival none.

Still catching onto this format at BIGGER POCKETS... not sure how the gadgets work.

The device, system and technology is available online.