You can setup a free or low cost voicemail system through a service like Google Voice or American Voicemail and have those systems ping you when you wake up or set off sirens in your home if you’d like, entirely up to you.

curl http://textbelt.com/text -d number=########## -d "message=text goes here"The alerting system can be done from crontab looking at a log.

No long term effect on r.e. from c.v.Now the global financial system imploding and dollar strength (short term) are a different story!

Many Property Managers have "Turnkey product" or have the system to help you buy, clean up, rent, and manage something from afar. 

I’m sure that tenant will some how try to milk the system.

Set up some systems for those types of investors and save your valuable cycles for those who are writing larger checks.  

By trade I'm a System Administrator that works from home.

@James York We provide landscape service for three reasons 1) Quality of maintinance, this includes the irrigation system. 2) Removal of the potential to become an employer of the tenant.

Depending on billing, you might want to consider separate meters for each section if it is not already set up with multiple meters.On the metal frames, yes colder weather does not affect them as engineered systems are designed for specific locations, to account for snow loads, wind loads, etc.

now with these high utility cost (building systems and bad windows makes it a bit inefficient) will I be stuck without renters?