I am researching the idea of hiring a Virtual Assistant that can answer our incoming phone calls for ads we place on our current rentals.

@Joshua Minatel,You can rollover your old 401k into self-directed IRA, which will enable to you to invest outside of the stock market into virtually any alternative investment opportunity, including real estate. 

I am wondering if anyone has had any success using virtual assistants and softwares to self manage their property from a long distance?

If she spent the next six months reading all of the Portland threads on BP and going to virtual Portland-area and other meetups she would develop some relationships to take into the real world.

People that are gonna get hit the hardest are ones with less than desirable financial profiles, but for your typical W2 earners that still have their jobs or work in industries that can go virtual during isolation, things should continue as usual. 

Attend a Meetup in his area/virtual meet ups4.

Attend a Meetup in your area/virtual meet ups4.

You can do virtual driving for dollars and also pull lists off Propstream, Privvy, or the more expensive platforms like Audantic, InvestorMachine.

They want to now buy NNN say 3 million property with 1 million down and get 5% cash on cash return and then with mortgage paydown equity build up hit about 10% annual return before tax benefits.They do virtually nothing owning these assets with investment grade credit tenants.

Is it because wholesaling transactions go virtually undetected since the house isn’t actually being bought by the wholesaler?