Location: 8433 Kelly Drive, Stockton, CA 95209Holy SH*T!

For example Boomers really love sustainability.

Deep down if we can help to motivate and drive others that share our interests can we not all share in the collective of real estate and it's greatness? 

While it's certainly not a solution to your need for a property manager, having family close by who can sometimes drive by or who have their own local vendor connections, will definitely be a help for an out of state investor.  

I don't hire contractors who drive Porsches.

If you are not buying until within the next year then I do not know why this agent is showing you properties.That is nothing more than a site seeing tour and all the properties you look at if worth anything will be gone by then.Seems like just meeting up with a local investor and going to lunch and driving around for initial area review would make more sense.When an investor says they are thinking of doing something next year so many things can happen between now and then that it becomes a probable long shot based on time alone.

Drive for dollars?  

I drive around a lot.

It's really a matter of deciding where I wanted to focus my interest, and since I love driving for dollars it's close and reasonably safe.Toxey

How much unpaid time did you spend driving to potential jobs, taking measurements, putting together bids, etc?