I hope your injury is not too severe and allows a full and wonderful life.Some thoughts:Managing from a far is not easy. 

I think it's easy to say "just offload the management" but I don't think a managed portfolio of buildings is quite the same as a managed portfolio of stocks and bonds.

It is time consuming, but pretty easy for a mason to do.

My strategy is I buy where people want to live, in a good or bad economy I don’t want to struggle finding tenants.Reading your post it sounds like it won’t be easy finding quality tenants..

Once you have a home or two it's easy to partner with a Property Management company who can take managing off your shoulders for a very small cost.

I put a lockbox on to make check in easy and  it wasn't a lot of work after that.

But, getting a job is incredibly easy.

Make things easy and convenient for your potential seller or buyer.

@Mike Cumbie, if both the new property manager you just hired and the tenants they found are showing red flags and you’d blow it off and say “meh, whatever” and not check on your properties ever - plus ignore an easy resource to find out what’s really going on - different business model I suppose...While I’m happy you seem to have found every property manager you’ve ever used fantastic - I and other BP posters have not had that experience. 

I disagree with the suggestion that the owner will just do it on their own because this isn’t as easy as most think it is.