The technology is getting better, cheaper and thinner.

If you are NOT running a trade or business - 1099s are not required.The main reason why you WANT to be "running a rental trade or business" is your eligibility to claim business overhead deductions, such as marketing, education, technology, and so on.

. - which I suspect you're already inclined to do.You can also investigate various methods of pipe replacement / renewal that involve trenchless technologies, such as pipe lining, pipe bursting, or directional drilling.

Padsplit is simply a technology platform.

Sometimes a name search will also reveal things on people not usually available until the technology of today. 

I have a background in technology and real estate (I was a previous VC-backed technology company founder), so I am very tech-friendly, and I like to adopt solutions that streamline workflow/enable best practices. 

We self manage from Chicago and it’s very manageable in this market with the help of today’s technology.  

Tokenization of real estate assets can take numerous forms, but what you’re proposing is to separate the real estate “bundle of rights”, have the property owner sell one or more “rights” but not all of those rights, and represent the ownership of the rights that have been sold by tokenization utilizing block chain technology rather than the county “filing” systems currently in use.  

Real- Estate  is a lot tougher game now because of technology now allowing buyers, sellers to access the market using the internet without using agents but  you do have hot areas that can support  more bodies .

My take as an insider is that it's because it's actually a much harder job than many might realize, and a consultative/ interpersonal/ hands on one that simply cannot be replaced easily with technology.