@Jeff G.Have you considered hiring an answering service?  

If not, I would do as others have stated and hire a PM or Realtor to cover me in my absence.  

You can do the rehab yourself to make better margins, but make sure the deal would still work even if you hired a GC.Good luck to you.  

If you manage the property or you hire the manager you may still be responsible for what happens at the property.

Also simply hiring a private eye can help. that will cost real money but can be worth it.

Use the BP calculator and include vacancy rates, costs for PM, unexpected fixes which might be costly since you would have to hire contractors, and the unexpected issues of just not being close.

And, to do the work, do you plan to hire everything out or do some yourself, initially? 

So, IE, same answer as above, as even if you find the correct owner of the mortgage, you may hit the roadblock of getting forwarded to their broker3-Broker's contact info- MOST of the banks hire a broker early in the foreclosure process (at least in IL) to monitor the property, whether it's vacant or still occupied, they want boots on the ground checking it. 

When your at the point of hiring a property manager to run your apartment complex, what things do they typically NOT DO?

But there are always some doubts when we are going to hire a real estate agent that what are the qualities should have in a good real estate agent.