Buildium help suggests setting up a bank account and running it with a negative balance. 

If this works, you can minimize your vacancy and make a short trip to Scottsdale to inspect the unit when the current tenant moves out and to do a walk-through inspection when the new tenant moves in.There are many companies that offer screening services. 

Several of the companies you listed, ex: propstream are great list aggregators, but their add on services (such as skip tracing) can be sub par. 

. - us accountants love hearing what everyone's else's friends are doing for tax strategies haha zoom hours with other investors definitely does not count.

Thanks Hey Don, To answer the "is there a different way to look at this" question I would strongly advise you real out to a real estate-focused accountant. 

If you are looking for recommendations on who the best turnkey companies are to partner up with, then I am your gal.

Are you working with a property management company or trying to do this yourself from afar?

I plan on using a property management company in order to keep the property in order until I move (eventually I want to bring property managers under my own business entity to focus only on my properties). 

Multiple, billion dollar companies are investing investing heavy in our area, such as Intel, Google, and Amazon.

It's been pretty hard finding companies that do this so I would like to ask all of you.