I would suggest doing so, especially if you are not going to be on-site, but make sure to do a thorough evaluation of several property managers.

Either ask or find someone skilled.Communication, always and often.Weekly photographic progress updates.When you run into an issue have multiple solutions along with any cost impacts at time of discussion.

No one runs a marathon w/o training, so start with the 1k, 5k, 10k ...In REI, the 1k is to evaluate a path to investments and what is entailed in each path. 

@Matthew Olszak Thanks for the response, with a sample size of "me" it's impossible to know how common progressions are.  

Thankyou both for the input I will constantly update my progress and post more question along this journey 

 Progress/update: I found a bank to work with me.

I could see the police responding if there is some specific criminal activity in progress that they need to deal with, but it's not likely the police are going to go house shopping with you - even if it is in a rough neighborhood. 

(I know I need more pics but is this really something that would hold up the progress that significantly?)

I like the idea (maybe not inline with your plans) of buying farmland slowly and steadily on the outskirts of cities (in the path of progress, as they say) and speculating that way. 

They aren't evaluating you as the seller as much as they are evaluating the property against other available\recently sold properties.