Once you have a solid team that understands your expectations and processes, it's a lot easier to scale the business.I look at it this way -- the first project or two takes about 10 times the work as a local project, but once things are running smoothly, all future projects should actually be LESS time consuming than your local projects, as your team will have learned how to be successful without you being an integral part of the day-to-day process.Think of the upfront effort as amortized over all the projects you'll do in that location -- the more you end up doing, the smaller the per-project cost of being remote.

It was reccomended by our atterney (who is also our CPA) and went very smooth.

Keep us posted on your progress, I hope for a smooth successful experience for you.

Whenever you are buying a property out of state you should do a few things to ensure it's as smooth as possible.

Eviction went smoothly and now it's under contract to sell.

I'll attend a community meeting to hear a group of Commercial Investors smooth things over with the neighborhood and connect with them afterwards.  

For those of you who have experience with house hacking, what would you suggest I do to ensure a smooth, pleasant house hacking experience?

Your goal is to find the owner with high motivation (tired of being a landlord, retiring, etc.) and then you be the person who can solve their problem smoothly. 

Or is it relatively smooth process? 

At the risk of overgeneralizing, multifamily properties are only really located in 3 or 4 area clusters.Here is a screen shot of every 2-4 unit property sold in the last 13 months (which allows for some "smoothing" of the data points) according to the Tucson MLS:Without painting with too broad a brush, if you want a tri or quad you're probably going to end up deciding among:1.