It’s soooo much reading(weeks of endless reading) to the point many things become a blur overtime.

Also occasionally appliances are stolen when the move out in the night.   

You will run into this occasionally.

I'm always wary of blurring the roles of tenant and hired help.  

We may be occasionally unreachable by phone during our travels. 

If you are in the SF/San Jose Bay Area, do let me know if you have occasional "meet ups" as I would like to joint like minded investors.CHARGE!!!!

Sure occasional inconveniences crop up, but what AirBNB did was beyond terrible, and has motivated me to work on separating from them - but that's going to be a lengthy process.

I’m looking for mainly to buy and hold and maybe an occasional flip to help fund my purchases of rental property’s.

And keep your handyman on speed dial because there will be plenty of occasional electrical and plumbing and HVAC and hot tub issues, many of which will be minor but will still require your handyman to take a look.

@Peter HallidayNotes valued at unpaid balance plus accrued interest may be how pension plan service advisors prefer pensions be valued, but that leads to sometimes extreme over valuations and occasionally undervaluations.