As an owner-landlord of 20+ single family homes across 3 states now, I am spending an inordinate amount of time handling bills, statements, receipts and other paperwork, both in physical-paper form and electronic.

We have always resorted to issuing letters to the code compliance officers and chief of police and being proactive to avoid fines, posting signage, completing routine on-site visits and drive-by's and building physical barriers.

I'm determined to at least have my first physical property before 2018, but it's extremely frustrating when you feel like you're doing the right things and yet...nothing.

As far as old people who have owned their houses for 50 years, many of them have become physically and financially incapable of caring for the house.

Most of us aren’t very physically imposing.  

Not tougher In a physical way, although you could be lol, but tougher in the sense that your going to show up every day and do the things that need done to improve your property and get it where you want it and the scumbags won't be able to keep up with that.

However, I can't help you with being physically present as I work full time and live down state.Anyone else, feel free to chime in if you think what I said is an unrealistic, "Pie in the Sky" idea.

If I plan my life to remove as much physical risk as possible by not going there, does that make me a coward or strategist?  

Appraisals typically take into account the physical condition of a property, its location, comparable sales in the area, and other factors that may affect its value.

Must be awfully thick stuff unless physics have changed.