High touch" and customer service from an "impression" standpoint might suffer but all else could work very well.Automated showings is easy nowadays.Automated maintenance and scheduling is fairly easy nowadays also as long as you have a solid vendor list.Also, have to "teach" the tenant from day 1 on "How to" use and do all of these things so on-boarding instructional manuals are vital.Just my opinion but I'm seeing the world of PM go heavily in the virtual direction.Well, at least the smart companies are doing it.Less overheads and a heavy reliance on tech and automation.Unfortunately, tech has let me down much less than people have over the years...I had an in depth talk with our team and we pretty much only need an office to hold keys lolEvery one can work from home with ease.Granted, they got use to the smell of my cigars in the office hahaIs smoking allowed in closed spaces?

I hadn't heard of FastTitleSearch.com before so I just looked at the site and saw they advertise they have a $1M O&E policy but I also saw they guarentee that:If we omit or do not show accurate information, a full refund will issued.I assume that means that if they miss something and you bid in reliance on their report, their liability is limited to the price you paid for the report.So say you pay $50.00 for the report and bid $50k at a foreclosure sale relying on the report showing no other mortgages and win. 

Residential is just passive reliance on the market...There is more upside in commercial on a per unit basis, for your time there is nothing higher

However the local economy has been on a 25yr decline with no sign of turnaround due to over reliance on a dwindling natural resource. 

Hmm;  sounds like Offer, Acceptance, EMD, reliance upon good evidence of the PAL - - time to push the lender with legal notice of damages caused by the PAL.

HelloI am an MBA student interested in investing in rental properties within 18-24 months of graduating from school. I would like to hear from the forum whether investors tend to lean more on their property managers (...

Too, it indicates  level of self-reliance that should keep them from calling you incessantly with every minor issue like a burnt out light bulb. 

I want to ramp up my investing and I want to be as free of reliance on agents for finding properties and also for doing comps.

As for the expenses what can you do to reduce/remove the tenants reliance on you paying the utilities? 

My company is Authentic Properties Reliance -- newly formed real estate investment company.