If you hire right, your only requirement is to review your monthly statements (provided by the Property Manager) and occasionally check in to verify everything is smooth.

I would gladly pay any title company double what I paid them if I can get thru a closing smoothly.

Whenever you are buying a property out of state you should do a few things to ensure it's as smooth as possible.Don't buy in the roughest neighborhood in the urban core.

My wife and I feel comfortable with this program and it should flow smoothly with the planning we've done.

Things have went smoothly so far.

Look at it this way, if you want to buy out of state non turnkey (and I’ve done this), you need to vet a realtor, a PM, a lender and a contractor (depending on what you want to do), then you have to hope it all goes smoothly and no one of those people screw you.

Whenever you are buying a property out of state you should do a few things to ensure it's as smooth as possible.Don't buy in the roughest neighborhood in the urban core.

As far as investing these areas are nicer areas for you to stay in with relatively smooth drives to most of the areas you should be considering investing in.

I've furnished a 2/2 remotely and it was very smooth, but I had done 10+ before that so had a tight process and shopping list.

There was only one heir and it went very smoothly.