Like any other prudent real estate investor, I am constantly monitoring and forecasting as best I can the health of the economy.

Notice for Creditors is the way to go, I made a spreadsheet of over 400 executors wtih name and address, the estate of____, and date of decree (thought this would be good for monitoring conversion).  

Having been monitoring the mrket for 2 months 24/7 and haven't seen any deals like what others are talking about!

I prefer to invest close to my home so I monitor the surrounding cities. 

You could always get back into it that way when on a computer and then mark the thread "monitor topic" checkbox to add it to the watched tab.

We are in the process of improving that to both photoelectric and ionic smoke detectors in all properties and a CO monitor in any properties with gas wall heaters.

Suggest you monitor tenant retention and see how many move-ins you get per year. 

But they will still monitor the portfolio... ?

They may require you to have professional monitoring, I think the ring plan for that is around $20/month.

The three people you mentioned are all not necessary until you find a deal, and even then the role the will play is minor (depending on the size of your first deal.)They just need to be licensed in whatever state your business is located.As far as expenses for each Insurance Agent - $0 (paid from your premiums) check out nreig.com CPA - I assume you mean a tax attorney, which is different from say a bookkeeper who would monitor the transactions on your account and log them accordingly.