We can still choose how much to pay someone to operate it if necessary.

You can too, without being a wholesaler or an agent.You can walk into a mall to a jewelry store and buy gold, which is simple, but you pay a huge markup.

It's pretty common practice to have something like that in a property management agreement, and if it falls under that limit they're going to pay it and not notify the owner except in regular monthly updates because it is below the threshold of what is an ordinary expense in the course of business.

Hot tubs pay for themselves.  

buy house  find renter rent house maintain house pray they pay rent and dont destroy it.

Where people are still normal and you can evict tenants but generally you don't have to because people pay their bills here.  

When your tenant stops paying and communicating, who will knock on the door to see if they still live there?

Google for a Service Agent who does Evictions and pay to get them out.

Tenants can only pay rent if they are employed at similar wages.

I suspect the stock market and or building then selling a bizzness created a big majority of millionare wealth and or just high paying jobs and save your money :)