I'm now finally here in person, and have started to go view places in person with the intent of purchasing. 

(I assume you won’t find a 1 hour a day type person.

(2) Ask for a Personal Financial Statement?

In all the years I've dealt with these I have never personally had one gone that road of default.

Now I am realizing there are too many of them for me to personally execute on, but I also hate the idea of wasted opportunities.How does an experienced investors actually scale their operations besides just hiring VAs? 

Quote from @Dereck Olson: Hi Nicholas,  Just a thought from the possible tenant's perspective, but filling out a prequalification form and/or providing personal information before they have even seen a place and know if they will be interested in living in the property might be a bit too much to ask. 

In particular, now I make sure I can talk to the person who will be my direct contact at the company.

Once we had the home inspection I was able to have the seller credit us at closing $8k...of which the escrow could not credit the entire amount and so I had the seller write up a personal check for $2000 How did you finance this deal?

Personally I don't love it.

I personally own 2 rentals in Indiana.