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We have a similar philosophy, looking at deals is just a standard part of our day; we have our box, if it hits the box we try to do the deal. 

Though I do not have a written contract I do have a verbal contract, as well as endless text's and emails that prove I live on property, this includes a PO BOX linked to my address, and testimonial from employees at the property. 

She does not have a mailbox and insists I use her PO box but she won't give me the PO box address. 

So besides purchasing the machines, I will need to add another electrical box to the house since I can't bill the electricity to the one tenant.

Define your goals and then see what types of investments hit those boxes versus calling people and them trying to tell you stuff to make that particular asset class sound good to you.  

I would look from both a zoning/cost/access standpoint in the following Box. 

Just another tool for the tool box.

Unless you have a VA loan, in which those loans are back by the government, so the loan companies don't need to add it to the loans.Home Owners policy = Is the insurance you get at the big box Insurance companies.

I recently read "landlording on autopilot", Mike Bulter suggests allowing potential tenants to view his properties alone using a lock box, or in my case key pad lock entry, my units all have keypads that I can program one time entry codes.