If not hire a plumber

R: "Do you think we hire average here?

If an injury occurs, then the person who hired the contractor is basically uninsured.

@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.  

But make sure that your mortgage rep runs the numbers for all of that or let's you know how to calculate what price-point you can target to see if that's even do-able.  

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.

I pay $45 per mo. for property radar and $28 per month for Rebo gateway by benuteach I found both as a referral from my title rep at first American title, our success is 95%.To speak more to what I'm doneing, we are developing a "FARM" I do the same type of drive for dollars type of thing only I want people to be living in the home.