You are probably paying your $12/hr guy by the hour and providing some tools.

Perhaps the rental property calculator can help under the tools tab.

By that I mean what actually happens on the ground......aside from pictures, video, phone calls, conference calls, texts, emails, dropbox etc. which are the communication tools employed to bridge the distance gap.My main question to you is have you physically flown out to the area to actually see your properties and drive around the neighborhoods they are located in and drive around the city at large?

Are you calling 203k contractors or Joe with truck and tools.

This states the home has been approved and available to be a rental.And some of these must be applied for every time a tenant moves.So check your state laws.There are Landlord Tenant Laws, Building Codes, and laws that are not laws at all but based on a Judge’s opinion of whether or not a tenant did wrong or not.For instance, normal wear and tear.Judges have various opinions on what they deem normal wear and tear.This is an Industry of thinking skills.This is an industry of holding your temper and implementing your lease agreement no matter what.You need to think like a Judge.You need to think reasonably.You need to be a good listener.You need to be in control.Once you buy a house you need to know how to keep that house and how to keep your tenants long term.You need to know how to be all things in order to keep your tenants happy, yet make them know the rules of landlording and how to be good tenants.I always say that one is only as good as the tools they have.You could be the greatest landlord in the world in mind and action, but if you don’t have the equipment, or the education, or the money to invest in the proper tools to make you successful, then you will never make it in this business.It takes my breath away to read the stuff on here by new investors.And I understand that how can they know what they do not know?

I am considering using it as an educational tool in my toolbox as well as a way to dip my toes into REI.

I use the screening offered through the BP tools.

I spent a lot of time looking at it and I do find it to be a good comparative tool, i.e. comparing returns in one area with another.

It’s a great analysis tool.

@Phillip Johnson The rental search tool is growing to be nationwide (<link removed>).