Managing from a distance has become easier due to technology because you have the ability to connect with your tenants, contractors, realtors, lenders, insurance agents, and any one else you need to manage your rental units.

Smart agents and brokers acknowledge that and are accepting lower commissions to stay ahead of the game and are using technology to keep volume where it needs to be. 

Outside of real estate, I have spent the last 10 years as an executive in startup technology companies and am currently working on launching an executive coaching practice.

The advantage of being a MHP broker is that technology has not caught up with this niche yet.

I joined the Marines and was an F-18 Electrician for four years before coming back to CT and getting a BS in Electronics Technology.

I am a graduate of a Building Design Technology program and I work as a Draftsperson for a large house and condo development company where I am also a Project Manager in training.

Technology is a wonderful thing ... you can build your investment model into excel or other such tool to automatically do the analysis to back into the numbers you care about.

It's nuts that jobless (or low-earning) college kids are buying iPhones/iPads/gadgets, summer vacations to Brazil, designer clothes, high-end makeup/crap/haircuts, going out partying and to pricey clubs, etc. all they while they have low-income (or no income) and are living off student loans delaying their debt to future years.

I started after I was sick of technology sales and had just purchased a duplex as a owner-occupied.

If you use a digital printer that has variable technology and mailing permit you can take care of addressing without much additional cost keeping you closer to budget.