It's really about developing the right team and establishing certain checks and balances in place to provide you a level of trust and comfort so you don't have to physically travel to your property.  

do you physically stamp each letter or are you just sending postcards?

When you are not there physically, you have to have someone you trust to take care of your tenants and property.

The court also made clear that it expects more than a casual viewing of the property by an agent or broker, writing that because agents are held out to the public as professionals with "superior knowledge, skills and experience" in the field of real estate, they are expected the exercise their expertise and "should have been alert to the signs of soils problems."

To complement the physical driving, you may also consider virtual 'driving' using Google Maps.

I have been exercising control to purposefully not mention Rent Appreciation in open 2 general public posts to help deflate the ignorance out there by novices who hear such and just assume rental appreciations are universal, misallocate, than get into a reverse situation.

Aside of that, we were pretty much a lawn ornament, just sitting there looking pretty and being useless.ya out here the brokerages get their commissions via electronic transfer and the Alta same thing its e mailed to them or put in their drop box no one physically takes paper documents anywhere and has not forever..

They paid rent monthly for 1 year then decided to exercise their right & purchased the property.If Buyer "A" had decided that they didn't want to purchase the property at the end of the predetermined time (1 year) the seller could have put the property back on the market & sold it to any other buyer.

Ok, makes sense that there won't be significant physical improvements. 

We also look at the existing conditions (physical occupancy versus economic occupancy) and market saturation to determine the value as Scott notes.