@George P.who is responsible if the tenants does not pay Phone Bill and Child Support...Also based on your reasoning, they should go after the Bank as well....  

The best way the I was thought is .... setup your team as best as your can thought phone internet Skype or what ever...

Are they willing to:-take phone calls-screen tenants (credit/background/criminal/etc)-book appointments-show the condo-place ads/other marketingOr would they rather outsource all that work to an agent?

Beware of their applications and all their screens, because they don't use SSL and score a 0 (zero) on my 'are you serious?'

If you want to get good at this you are going to have to talk to these people at the very least over the phone.

Why don't you just use a regular tenant screening service?

It would be cool to instantly video chat with someone on BP with the click of a button.If it's text only then likely I would just talk to people over the phone as I can share 10 times the info in 30 minutes over a phone call then typing out.

I'll start off by saying believe in the power of CL (craigslist) I don't let a day pass   without utilizing that site.my advice to you would be log on CL search area's within a 2hr distance from you go under real estate fsbo filter your search with we buy house's or I buy ugly house's and investor special,once you find these ads start making phone calls,reason being these investors know their local market and have their hands on the pulse of that farm area.After dissecting all the useful info from local rei,I generally go to google streetview and walk the neighborhoods to have a better understanding of there market.Trust me it works I just closed 3 wholesale deals in Birmingham,Al using those same techniques,I was fortunate enough to find a we buy house's sign on a street corner zoomed in on the sign called the number and almost 2 months later the deal was funded.I hope this post serves you willCheers!

I currently own a chain of cell phone stores which has lead to increased interest in real estate investing.

I agree - I just posted something from my phone, and when I looked at what I had posted, autocorrect had turned it into a bunch of unintelligible babble.