If you were bullish on the area and planned on having 3 or 4, then management would make sense, but buying a first property far away only to have some random company manage it, and add on MTR which is not as complicated as STR, but still more uptake is a tall order.

We had to have a certain amount of glazing on the front elevation, so the glass garage doors helped with that calculation - and they look awesome!

It is a numbers game like an hour glass.

I bought the property, had the front door boarded, the grass mowed 2x, spent 15 minutes cleaning glass up from the storm door that fell down, and am flipping it to an investor who's going to tear it down and rebuild.

It helped us shatter that self-imposed glass ceiling, resetting our expectations of what was possible and allowing us to shoot for something bigger.

I hear Texas is good right now.The thing to do now, since you've joined BiggerPockets (affectionately known as "BP"), is to enter some choice search terms next to that little magnifying glass up towards the top of the page.

A tall order perhaps, definitely tricky, but I've seen it done.

The latter is a tall order for all but the most sophisticated investors anyway and certainly does not make this type of investing passive. 

I have my popcorn with a tall glass of diet milk waiting for this answer. 

Example someone on the cell phone looking down seemingly unaware of their surroundings versus a person walking tall, head up, scanning the area as they walk.