Be a good community player.  

I feel like this would be a really hard market to try to break into as postlets.com is owned by Zillow and they are a major player in real estate. 

The flip side of that, is 1) if they're open 24/7, they're probably going to charge a lot2) if they're called out for a $3 plumbing problem, even for non emergency repairs, they'll charge $250, and 3) I need some safeguard from my tenant calling them for frivolous repairs, or from a tenant who is just purposely trying to raise my costs.What suggestions do you have, and how can I find a COMPETENT team of people, who are AVAILABLE when they're needed, and have reasonable rates?

If you are playing in the major cities, it's not a great cashflow market, instead, it is more of a market timing market where you buy, hang on for dear life and then sell.On bigger deals, you'll find mostly pension funds, insurance companies and large REITs competing for a short supply of assets and driving down cap rates.In smaller cities/areas, it acts like many other US markets.Overall, very high barriers to entry, but you can see appreciation that other markets can only dream about.

You could probably do the demolition in a few hours with Sawzall and some other tools, but I'd recommend that you hire a competent deck carpenter to be sure that you got it done right.I do hope this helps.All the best.

I also do have an in with the football coaches at two of the universities at which I am looking at, so IF I HAD TO, I could stick a group of football players in there, with the coach on speed dial.

I write poker theory and am a very good player and I believe that I can make enough playing poker to cover our expenses while we are traveling and this will free up my retirement checks to be invested in more real estate.

Yes @Jay Hinrichs the biggest Oz players should have all gone to jail for what they did to their own clients.  

What I'm saying is your goal is kind of like "I want to win the NYC marathon" but you'd have a lot more success competing in the local 5K races every single weekend. 

If this goes through, Zillow would become the unquestioned dominant player in the online RE market.