You can get automatic daily, weekly or however frequently you want reporting of actual vs. budget and it also takes all your expenses from your bank account or credit cards, so you are certain to have accounted for every expenditure.  

Also keep tabs on them, dropping by the worksite frequently at a unannounced times.

Unless you knew about his backstory (for which he does not talk about very frequently) you wouldn't know that he had any disability. 

As an investor and an Investor Friendly Agent myself, I frequent investor meet-up's, classes, dinners, gathering etc.

If you allow pets what you must do is more frequent inspections.

@Esther AdeI frequently see investors work with a capital partner and give too much away in their split, as if the capital is more important than the sourcing and operation of the property.

This question gets asked a lot on biggerpockets, and is debated in the investor community quite frequently.

There's a lot of ways to start out and BP has a lot of info on each way to do so, not to mention familiar and frequent scenarios.  

You may want to, however, mention that aspect to them as this is probably not really their focus right now...Good luck and for all of us here again a lesson learned: check on your properties frequently, especially when in a sale process!

I'm in the cities frequently.